Temporary Homelands Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming These essays, by an exciting new voice in nature writing, Alison Hawthorne Deming, combine the objectivity of a field notebook and the subjectivity of personal memoir. Tracing the subtle connections and tensions between wilderness and human culture, Deming explores our need for a place within the natural world. — Inspired by four loved places -- ... more »the northeast woods of her childhood, a remote Canadian island off the eastern seaboard, southeast Alaska, and the American southwest -- the essays trace one woman's journey in search of a spiritual home. Throughout her sojourns in "temporary homelands, " Deming reflects on natural harmony and the discord with the natural world that our culture has created.« less