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Sid Marty’s extraordinary clarity of thought and language makes this ambitious book a pleasure to read. He combines native legends, pioneer tales, cowboy myths, and wildlife stories to paint an engaging portrait of his home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, near Pincher Creek, Alberta. There is a rich store of history here – geological, human, and personal – and fascinating glimpses of individual lives. Marty has the rare ability to draw universal insight from his personal experience and observation. A delight.
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The Chinook, a warm Pacific wind that blows in a broad belt along the eastern slopes of the Rockies turning winter into a temporary spring, is the stuff of myth and legend. Known to hurl a freight train off its tracks and make trees grow parallel to the ground, it carved out the plains and created the cowboy life.
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Sid Marty's search for the Chinook is a grand interweaving of Native legend, pioneer tales, cowboy myths, wildlife stories and often haunting insights into a force that has indelibly marked life on the southern prairie and foothills of Alberta and Montana.
Warm, wry and brilliantly amusing, Leaning on the Wind is also a personal journey -- a quest into the land of Sid Marty's ancestors and neighbors in which he encounters his abandoned family homestead, a gathering of cowboy poets and a school for rodeo clowns -- not to mention a psychopathic grouse. Throughout his journey, the Chinook dances and rages, a powerful connector in this entertaining, richly epic portrait of the profound relationship among people, culture and natural forces.
“Marty is one of Canada’s greatest living writers...the West’s unsung poet laureate, a former park warden, a talented balladeer, and a barnburner of a storyteller.”
–Toronto Star
“These essays are so vital, so vibrant, so full of life, you just want to jump up and down for joy.”
–Edmonton Journal
–Toronto Star
“These essays are so vital, so vibrant, so full of life, you just want to jump up and down for joy.”
–Edmonton Journal
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0771056710
- ISBN 13 9780771056710
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages376
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Book Description Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Paperback Printing. Story of the author's homeland of Western Canada, at Pincher Creek in Alberta and in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. His own story as well as those of Native Indians, Pioneers, Miners etc. xi, 361 p. ; 23 cm. Bright, clean interior, pages white and unmarked. Previous owner's name to the inside of the front wrapper. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Outer corner tips of the rear wrapper have slight bumps. Unpacked weight, 507g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for Canadian and Overseas shipments, but not usually to the USA. Questions? Quotes? - please email. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 32289
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