Barefoot-Hearted: A Wild Life Among Wildlife
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375504389 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Meyer, the author of the indelicately titled but highly useful How to Shit in the Woods, recounts how she and her partner set about making an old Montana barn into a fit home. The job was daunting, she learned: in winter, the place was so cold that she had to bundle up in gear befitting an Antarctic explorer, no easy garb for, well, performing certain functions. She sets those challenges against a thoughtful, ongoing discussion that touches upon important philosophical issues: the responsibilities of those who live on the edges where civilization and wilderness meet, and the responsibilities of humans to preserve what little of wild nature is left in a time of wholesale extinction and slaughter. Readers of those books will want to spend time with Kat
A cloud, a sort of vaporousness, redolent with fresh acrid sweat on top of powerful stale sweat, hung thickly about me. Laced, as it was, with a woman's sweet musky secretions, and all gone past ripe, oddly it was a pungency I savored. Before setting up the corral, we were forced to clear away shards of glass, bent nails, broken lumber. She tells of a freakish season that or-phaned seventy-seven bear cubs, an unusual fly-fishing trip on a famed blue-ribbon trout stream, the visitations of moose, and the discovery of a den of wolves.Meyer's prose is original and inspired, playful yet provocative. As partners, they travel across three moun
I Loved This Book! Gail D. Storey Kathleen Meyer's BAREFOOT HEARTED; A Wild Life Among Wildlife is undoubtedly one of my favorite books ever. It gets to the heart of an affectionately respectful coexistence with nature and all manner of creatures--horses, mice, bats, skunks, flies, bears, moose, and wolves, and last but in no way least--the drop-dead-gorgeous Irish farrier Patrick McCarron. Kathleen and Patrick, fiercely independent and just as fiercely in love, travel by covered wagon through Colorado, Wyoming and Montana before settling into an old dairy barn in Montana's Bit. "The adventurer I wanted to be." according to L. Klein. I really enjoyed this book. She did a number of things I always wanted to do, but "the real world" prevented it. (Raised a large family alone, etc.) I think the feeling I got was of someone who could look after herself, and was a "helper" as well as a "helpee",. Independent, but still able to love and give to someone else.. Great back-to-nature read! A fun and funny book to read if you ever dabbled in the countercultural "back-to-nature movement" of the '70's or the looked ahead to the coming "social collapse" the in '20s as a survivalist determined to live off the land without destroying the rest of it. And a love story to boot. Thought provoking read.