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Seven Summers A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West by Julia Corbett

Description: Seven Summers is the story of a naturalist-turned-professor who flees city life each summer with her pets and power tools to pursue her lifelong dream—building a cabin in the Wyoming woods. With little money and even less experience, she learns that creating a sanctuary on her mountain meadow requires ample doses of faith, patience, and luck. This mighty task also involves a gradual and sometimes painful acquisition of flexibility and humility in the midst of great determination and naive enthusiasm.For Corbett, homesteading is not about wresting a living from the land, but respecting and immersing herself in it—observing owls and cranes, witnessing seasons and cycles, and learning the rhythms of wind and weather in her woods and meadow. The process changes her in unexpected ways, just as it did for women homesteaders more than a century ago. The more she works with wood, the more she understands the importance of “going with the grain” in wood as well as in life. She must learn to let go, to move through loss and grief, to trust her voice, and to balance independence and dependence. Corbett also gains a better understanding of her fellow Wyomingites, a mix of ranchers, builders, gas workers, and developers, who share a love of place but often hold decidedly different values. This beautifully written memoir will appeal to readers who appreciate stories of the western landscape, independent women, or the appreciation of the natural world.

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Location: Schenectady, New York

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Seven Summers A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West by Julia Corbett

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Literary Movement: Modernism

Book Title: Seven Summers : a Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West

Item Length: 8.5in

Item Height: 0.8in

Item Width: 5.5in

Author: Julia Corbett

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Women, United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Idaho, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Buildings / Residential, General, Seasons, Regional, United States / General

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Publication Year: 2013

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel, Architecture, History

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

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