| Title | : | Barefoot-Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375504389 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2001-08-14 |
| Genre | : |
"The Wyoming Centennial Wagon Train ended in Cody in a dismal, torn-down drive-in movie theater. Before setting up the corral, we were forced to clear away shards of glass, bent nails, broken lumber. My prairie skirt and petticoats hung ragged and clay-caked, and under a droopy Stetson my frizzled hair appeared at once greased and starched beyond human recognition. A cloud, a sort of vaporousness, redolent with fresh acrid sweat on top of powerful stale sweat, hung thickly about me. Laced, as it was, with a woman's sweet musky secretions, and all gone past ripe, oddly it was a pungency I savored. Such goaty piquance, though, was cause to be shunned in any town setting.The look of my world had changed. Gone were the high-dollar designer clothes and the zipping around fabled Marin County in a candy-apple-red 1966 Mustang convertible. It was true that I unfailingly sought the ironies in life and, with a kind of dual personality, shifted easily through incongruencies such as town strolls i
Editorial : Memoirs by urbanites who homestead in the country and learn hard lessons in the bargain are many, but few attain the depths of a Walden or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Readers of those books will want to spend time with Kathleen Meyer's sometimes playful, sometimes somber Barefoot Hearted, which brings a resolutely modern sensibility to some ancient problems--among them, how to live with the creatures on whose homes humans have intruded, and how to learn the arts of self-sufficiency. Meyer, the author of the indelicately titled but highly useful How to Shit in the Woods, recounts how she and her partner set about making an old Montana barn into a fit home. The job was daunting, she learned: in winter, the place was so cold that she had to bundle up in gear befitting an Antarctic explorer, no easy garb for, well, performing certain functions. And, she found, the barn and its environs had become a shelter for many animals, some of which she welcomed (among them ba
As he says, "My delusion of morality was absurd, as flagrantly in opposition to the most obvious facts of the world, as a re the Biblical beliefs of any fundamentalist" (74). It is quite convenient to have this material gathered together; overall, a useful and very nicely produced little study.. This Book was in perfect condition. It was a library book and I think it had never been checked out!. Her writing is excellent, and I'd rather know too much than too little about a subject. 1470). Very helpful!. The history of these textiles' invention and changing use makes for a fine coverage of trends and cultural traditions in a title highly recommended for any college-level collection.. This book is a wonderful, well written and researched book about the incredible, innovative ways fabric is being used all over the world. BAREFOOT HEARTED is a highly sensual story--rich with musk, sage, and clover, the sweep of a Rocky Mountain valley, the scratching, cawing, and braying of animals, the fe
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