e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Proulx, Annie.
Subjects
Proulx, Annie -- Homes and haunts -- Wyoming.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Natural history -- Wyoming.
Wyoming -- Biography.
Wyoming -- Description and travel.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Proulx, Annie.
by title:
Bird Cloud : a memoi...
by call number:
921 P9682b
Search the Web
Proulx, Annie.
Proulx, Annie -- Homes and haunts -- Wyoming.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Natural history -- Wyoming.
Wyoming -- Biography.
Wyoming -- Description and travel.
MARC Display
Bird Cloud : a memoir / Annie Proulx.
by
Proulx, Annie.
Scribner, 2011.
Call #:
921
P9682b
Subjects
Proulx, Annie -- Homes and haunts -- Wyoming.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Natural history -- Wyoming.
Wyoming -- Biography.
Wyoming -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780743288804
0743288807
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
xiii, 234 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The back road to Bird Cloud -- A yard of cloth -- Lodgepole Pines and houses -- The iron enters my sole -- The James gang -- When the wind blows -- Details, details, details -- Bird Cloud's checkered past -- "...all beaded, all earringed, wing feather bowstring sided..." -- A year of birds.
Summary:
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on it, a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Her first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, this book is the story of designing and constructing that house, with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho and Shoshone Indians, and a family history, going back to nineteenth century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. The author here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
921 P9682b
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
921 P9682b
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.