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Nominated for the 1995 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. Winner of a 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival Award.
"Most of our land is in the sky," writes Sid Marty of his southwestern Alberta home. Between sky and prairie blows the Chinook, a powerful, warm wind that can carry away the precious topsoil as easily as it turns winter temporarily into spring. For Marty, Chinook is the spirit of the West, the brash voice of western history and cowboy culture; the trickster lurking at the homesteader's fence. Leaning on the Wind is Sid Marty's testament to Chinook Country life and his appeal for balance between the ways of nature and the demands of the modern world.
Leaning on the Wind is a grand blast of writing, a poetic search for the spirit of the land in the foothills of Alberta. Wryly humorous, observant and imaginative, Sid Marty offers us a personal and richly entertaining portrait of the wild and not-so-wild west - and makes a plea for the preservation of a powerful place and spirit.
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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.
217;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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- PublisherHarpercollins Canada
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0006385907
- ISBN 13 9780006385905
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages317
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