Light in the Trees

Light in the Trees - Voice in the American West

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Publisher's Synopsis

A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest.

Sasquatch myths and serial killer realities, a runaway Appaloosa, and turbulent volcanoes beneath serene mountaintops help chronicle a coming of age for both a narrator and a place. Later, a move to the Southwest expands Folkins's view of the West. From this new perspective paired with frequent journeys to the Northwest, she explores challenges of the natural world, from wildlife habitat and water quality to a changeable climate and wildfires, navigating new versions of home and self along the way.

Book information

ISBN: 9780896729513
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 814.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiv, 139
Weight: 360g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 15mm