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Combining personal experiences with nature writing and social critique, Gaard touches on diverse and compelling subjects, including homelessness, job dissatisfaction, logging, and a lesbian couple's struggle to fit in. Booklist Whether camping out at the top of a glacier on Mt. Baker, or kneeling on the shore of Lake Superior paying homage to the Ojibwe grandmother who inhabits it, Gaard exemplifies a woman who is both as fluid as the rivers she loves and as true to herself as a river to its channel. Turning Wheel This narrative provides rich terrain for those interested in questions of environmental ethics and social justice. Western American Literature

There is much to praise in this book....It is a book that certainly deserves a place on environmental literature shelves. Gaard explores environmental concerns and touches on their parallels to community issues, making connections that are still too little voiced. This narrative provides rich terrain for those interested in questions of environmental ethics and social justice. aWestern American Literature Combining personal experiences with nature writing and social critique, Gaard touches on diverse and compelling subjects, including homelessness, job dissatisfaction, logging, and a lesbian couple's struggle to fit in. --Booklist This narrative provides rich terrain for those interested in questions of environmental ethics and social justice. --Western American Literature Whether camping out at the top of a glacier on Mt. Baker, or kneeling on the shore of Lake Superior paying homage to the Ojibwe grandmother who inhabits it, Gaard exemplifies a woman who is both as fluid as the rivers she loves and as true to herself as a river to its channel. --Turning Wheel

Combining personal experiences with nature writing and social critique, Gaard touches on diverse and compelling subjects, including homelessness, job dissatisfaction, logging, and a lesbian couples struggle to fit in. aBooklist

Combining personal experiences with nature writing and social critique, Gaard touches on diverse and compelling subjects, including homelessness, job dissatisfaction, logging, and a lesbian couple's struggle to fit in. --Booklist Whether camping out at the top of a glacier on Mt. Baker, or kneeling on the shore of Lake Superior paying homage to the Ojibwe grandmother who inhabits it, Gaard exemplifies a woman who is both as fluid as the rivers she loves and as true to herself as a river to its channel. -- Turning Wheel This narrative provides rich terrain for those interested in questions of environmental ethics and social justice. --Western American Literature

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Greta Gaard is the author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens, and editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. A well-published environmental literature critic, she currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education.

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