Home is the road : wandering the land, shaping the spirit

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"From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. 'My sense of place is in the moving,' Glancy writes. For her the road is home-its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass through-as we...

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Glancy, Diane

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ISBN:

9781506474779

Description:

214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

This village called a river
A wayfarer
Gathering water
The origin of horse
The spigot of the quarter moon
The origin of water
Acts of disobedience
Kansas
Writing is a journey
A continuance of travel
A drive across the country
The move
Intrusions
The trip to Kansas
The trip back to California
The bird house
A book of roads
Notes to the joint staff of chiefs
The marching in the tops of the mulberry trees
A caravan of days
Civil war soldier and a grapefruit
Totem
It is the stones that survive
Filming while driving
The arrival of religion
The dome of heaven
Four quarters
Why the rocks have ears
Rough footage
A moving point of reference
Shoebox
Hoelun
#NoDAPL protest
A view from the windshield of my car
The language of weather
Early winter

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3212141

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