Ellen Waterston

Walking the High Desert (eBook, ePUB)

Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species.

Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readerswherever they may beto consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295747514
• Artikelnr.: 59457645

Autorenporträt

Former rancher Ellen Waterston is the author of the essay collection Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home (OSU Press) and three collections of poetry. She is the founder of the Bend, Oregon literary festival The Nature of Words and instructor and founder of the Writing Ranch, which hosts writing workshops in central Oregon and awards the annual Waterston Desert Writing Prize.