About this book

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, the Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.

Subjects

  • 362.1/9699449/0092 b
  • biography
  • bird populations
  • birds
  • breast
  • breast--cancer--patients
  • breast--cancer--patients--utah--biography
  • breast neoplasms
  • cancer
  • cancer, patients, biography
  • disasters
  • disasters--personal narratives
  • disasters--popular works
  • ecology
  • great salt lake region
  • health
  • healthwilliams, terry tempest
  • natural history
  • natural history, united states
  • natural history--utah--great salt lake region
  • ovaries
  • patients
  • personal narratives
  • popular works
  • rc280.b8 w47 1992
  • utah
  • utah, biography
  • williams, terry tempest
  • wp 870 w727r 1992