![]() ![]() She brings us the landscapes and their people - from Alaska to Texas, from Florida to California - via narrative, interviews, letters, poetry, and photographs, too.įinding a way to speak for the land as well as other people came early to Terry Tempest Williams. Williams travels the country with park service personnel, with friends, with strangers, with her husband Brooke, and sometimes alone, with only her own thoughts. Coinciding with the 100th Anniversary of the National Park System, the book features 12 parks (there are 58 in all). ![]() In her new book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, place and voice meet as never before. And so she filled them with stories, meditations, confessions, calls to action, and many other vocal variations. When Williams opened them, she was shocked to find them blank. This becomes especially clear in her 2012 When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice, which starts by describing the dozens of journals Williams’s mother left for her. Open any of Terry Tempest Williams’s books and step into a voice. ![]() OPEN ANY of Terry Tempest Williams’s 18 books and step into a place: the Great Salt Lake and surrounding Utah desert in Refuge, the Arizona-Mexico border and Africa’s Serengeti Plains in An Unspoken Hunger, a small village in Italy and another in Rwanda in Finding Beauty in a Broken World. ![]()
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