Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594856397 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Amazon Customer Thank you for this beautiful book great, heartwarming stories beautifully written. "Faith and hope in the face of the inevitable" according to L. Schooler (specialx@alaska.net). When I sat sat down to write this review after reading The Faith of Cranes (for a second time), it began as a detailed, multi-paragraph effort to describe how important such a wrenching, tender tale of death, loss, hope and love can be in a world beset by the seemingly inevitable. "Heartfelt, Profound, Inspiring, Funny" according to Sean Neilson. This book is beautifully written from the heart. It is an excellent read for anyone seeking hope and beauty in a world that seems hell-bent on destroying both. Hunters, tree huggers, gardeners and anyone else that knows how to read should pick this one up. Even if you don't know
Hank Lentfer, a life-long Alaskan, is a gardener, hunter, woodworker, and musician. He is co-editor of Arctic Refuge:A Circle of Testimony. His writing has appeared in Orion, Wilderness and several anthologies including Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. He helped establish and now manages the Gustavus Forelands Preserve, a four-thousand-acre refuge for migratory sandhill cranes.
And he had no idea that following the paths of cranes would lead him to the very things he was most afraid of: parenthood, responsibility, and actions of hope in a frustrating and warming world.FAITH OF CRANES is Lentfer's quiet, lyrical memoir of his home and community near Glacier Bay that reveals a family s simple acts planting potatoes, watching cranes, hunting deer as well as a close and eccentric Alaskan community. An authentic new voice in Alaskan literature FAITH OF CRANES weaves together three parallel narratives: the plight and beauty of sandhill cranes, one man's effort to recover hope amid destructive climate change, and the birth of a daughter. But the same animals, pecking a living between the cornfields and condos of California's Central Valley, seem trapped and diminished. A former wildlife biologist and longtime conservationist, Lentfer had come to accept that no number of letters to the editor or trips to D.C. On a very visceral level, he didn't want to know. After all, cranes gliding through the wide skies of Alaska are the essence of wildness. Han
--David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and God Laughs & Plays . Lentfer's storytelling achieves its joys and universality not via grand summations but via grounded self-giving, familial intimacy, funny friendships, attentive griefs, and full-bodied immersion in the Alaskan rainforest. The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole. Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be