Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is

Gretel Ehrlich

Pantheon

A Blizzard Year

scholastic

This companion to "The Horse Whisperer" looks at the world of Nicholas Evans' novel and Robert Redford's film. Focusing on the history, landscape and culture of the American West, it explores the role of horses in that world, the truths, the myths and legends about them, and discusses the making of the film. It is introduced by Robert Redford and contains photographs of the cast, crew and animals, in action and on location.

The Horse Whisperer - the Illustrated Companion

Humor & Entertainment

BANTAM PRESS

Heart Mountain

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Mandarin

A practicing Buddhist, the author of The Solace of Open Spaces embarks on a pilgrimage to climb one of China's four sacred mountains and finds Buddhist lamas seeking refuge from repression and pandas fighting extinction.

Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist

Literary

Beacon Pr

The Solace of Open Spaces and Other Stories

Essays & Correspondence

Northsound Music Group Inc

In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. All but five per cent of the island is covered by a vast ice sheet, an enduring remnant of the last ice age. Despite a uniquely hostile environment, it has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Greenlanders retain many of their traditional practices: some still hunt on sleds made from whale and caribou with packs of dogs; others fashion harpoons from Narwhal tusks; and entranced shamans make soul fights under the ice. Ehrlich mixes stories of European anthropologists who have recorded the ways of the Inuit, with artists who have lived briefly on Greenland's fringe in order to try to capture its extraordinary pure light. She travels across this unearthly landscape in the company of men and women who have a deep bond with it, and with them she discovers the realm of the Great Dark, ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo nomads.

Seven Seasons in Greenland - This Cold Heaven

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Fourth Estate

'I suspect that my original motive for coming here was to 'lose myself' in new and unpopulated territory. Instead of producing the numbness I thought I wanted, life on the sheep ranch woke me up.'In 1976, Gretel Ehrlich travelled from her home in New York to Wyoming to shoot a film on sheep herders. While she was away, her partner died. Although she had never planned to stay, Ehrlich found herself unable to leave. What started out as a work trip became the beginning of a new life, as well as a long and deep attachment to place.Writing of sheep herding alone across Wyoming badlands, her experience of being struck by lightning, the true meaning of cowboys, and taking her new husband to the rodeo for their honeymoon, as well as the changing seasons, extreme winters and the wind, Ehrlich draws us into her personal relationship with this 'planet of Wyoming' she has come to call home.As tough as it is tender, The Solace of Open Spaces is travel memoir that is embedded in place, and nature writing with an unexpected bite. It is a bold testimony to how the landscape we live in affects who we are.

The Solace of Open Spaces (with an introduction by Amy Liptrot)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Daunt Books

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