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An Unspoken Hunger

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The acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience—as a woman, a Mormon, and a Westerner. Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other.
Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx. She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O’Keeffe, contemplates the unfathomable wildness of bears, and directs us to a politics of place. The result is an utterly persuasive book—one that has the power to change the way we live upon the earth.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 28, 1995
      Naturalist Williams's collection of essays mixes environmental activism, a passion for the landscape of her native Utah and a special concern with the role of women in the environmental cause.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 4, 1994
      Naturalist-in-residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History and author of Refuge , Williams here explores the connection between nature and women, affirms the healing power of the land and looks at feminism and bear myths. She contrasts the predator-prey relationship of the Great Basin with that of the Serengeti Plain of Africa and recalls a story about Georgia O'Keeffe and Coyote. Williams voices her shock at seeing the moribund wetlands of Pelham Bay in New York City's Bronx on an expedition to collect intertidal creatures. She describes demonstrations against nuclear testing and stresses her own concerns by reprinting the powerful statement she delivered before a congressional subcommittee hearing on the Pacific Yew Act of 1991. Williams recalls her family, in particular her grandmother and two uncles; of other members, she writes: ``Nine women in my family have had mastectomies. Seven are dead.'' Her essays are elegant and compelling.

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