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Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless [Minkštas viršelis]

4.39/5 (69 ratings by Goodreads)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x12 mm, weight: 283 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-Apr-2025
  • Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517918561
  • ISBN-13: 9781517918569
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x12 mm, weight: 283 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-Apr-2025
  • Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN-10: 1517918561
  • ISBN-13: 9781517918569
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"Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet, and her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. In this memoir of building a sustainable lifestyle, Dean's boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue her story with urgency and a sense of adventure. Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet's future, Shelter and Storm unites personal experience with science and history to illuminate a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences"--

Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty

 

In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change—an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in Shelter and Storm.

 

Dean’s boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue these essays with urgency and a sense of adventure. She invites readers to share in her discoveries while hunting for water, learning that a persistent weed could be food, or burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie. Contending with the fallout of fires, floods, and tornadoes, she offers responses to natural disasters that reflect the importance of community, now and for generations to come. Whether tracking down a rare, blue-glowing firefly, engineering a beaver-friendly waterway to appease a dying neighbor, or building a house of earthen blocks, Dean unites personal experience with science and history, presenting a perspective as informative as it is compelling.

 

Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet’s future—and the implications of extreme weather, shifting agricultural practices, and political divides—Shelter and Storm illuminates a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences or for anyone searching, as Dean has, for a more sustainable way to live.

 

 

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"In this remarkable collection of essays, Tamara Dean conveys the depth of our connection to the natural world with careful research and gentle words, bringing the Driftless area of Wisconsin to life. Shelter and Storm is regional literature at its finest. These smoothly flowing essays reveal both the character of the author and the character of the land in equal measure."-Joan Maloof, author of Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

 

"There is so much to admire in these beautifully written essays, but foremost are Tamara Deans sense of awe in the natural world, her citizen science undertakings, and her deep research into both history and biology. Significantly, she is clear-eyed about assaults on the environment, documenting among them fierce storms, flooding, fires, and the spread of Lyme disease as results of climate change. Although Deans homeplace is one particular area of Wisconsin, her passions and observations will resonate with readers everywhere."-Nancy Lord, former Alaska State Writer Laureate and author of Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North 



"A deeply personal and insightful narrative of living in harmony with nature amid the environmental crises of the twenty-first century."-Fresh Energy

 

"Chapters add up to a memoir honoring the land and chronicling Deans life in relationship to the ecology, history, and people of the Driftless area. Readers of Aldo Leopolds Sand County Almanac (2013) will enjoy Deans writing about this unique land the glaciers forgot."-Booklist

 

"Marked by sharp observations, taut pacing, and mixed subjects, the book interweaves discussions of a rainwater cistern with reflections on water quality issues in Tanzania, Michigan, and the local Kickapoo River. Its descriptions of nature are captivating, as in an account of raccoons swinging like monkeys to feast on acorns in a canopy of oak trees. The lyrical essays in Shelter and Storm are insightful in addressing sustainable living, climate change, and the resilience of rural communities."-Foreword Reviews

 

"[ Dean] writes well about neighbors, climate change, local history, endangered species, natural disasters, and what it means to belong to a place."-Cakes, Tea and Dreams

 

Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. Her essays and stories have been published in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, the Guardian, One Story, Orion, and The Progressive, and she is author of The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles over Motors. She teaches writing independently and through writing centers across the nation.