A Geography of Blood by Candace Savage
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, her naturalist's instinct propels her to explore the area. She takes pleasure in the Wild West setting, discovering hidden back roads, dinosaur skeletons at the discovery center, and fossils in the dust-dry hills. She also revels in her encounters with the land's
"In this book the gifted Candace Savage has written a part-memoir, part-history of the Eastend, Saskatchewan area where I spent half my lifeShe has done it with wonder, precision, praise and grief, adding to and extending the body of work about this extraordinary place, filling in gaps and providing another point of view. It is a heart-warming, yet incisive work that any reader will find hard to put down."—Sharon Butala, author of Perfection of the Morning
Candace Savage is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books on subjects ranging from natural history and science to popular culture. She is the author of the best-selling natural history titles Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays and Prairie: A Natural History, for which she won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and a Gold Medal from ForeWord Magazine in 2004. She is also a frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, including Canadian Geographic. She lives in Saskatoon, SK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781553652342 |
| ISBN 10 | 1553652347 |
| Title | A Geography of Blood |
| Author | Candace Savage |
| Series | David Suzuki Institute |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Greystone Books,Canada |
| Year published | 2012-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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