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Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of wait...
"From esteemed naturalist Trevor Herriot and acclaimed nature photographer Branimir Gjetvaj, Islands of Grass is a beautiful, well researched call-to-action and a passionately wrought love letter to the prairie grassland...
Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of wait...
The author recounts summer days as a youth on a 70-acre piece of land on Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle River, and introduces his immediate and extended family, most of whom are farmers. He describes the effect of mining on t...
"In the wake of colonization, in a landscape of loss and dispossession, can we rediscover ways to share the land with other creatures and one another? Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the ...
Published to wide acclaim, this beautiful meditation on the fate of grassland birds has been praised for its profound wisdom and lyrical grace. Herriot, in a narrative that is at once intimate and informative, argues for...
Herriot explores local pastures and open rangeland to discover why birds are disappearing and what, if anything, we can do to save them. He reveals that any hope for the endangered wildness in North America's heartland d...
Trevor Herriot's memoir and history of the Qu'Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the R...
Towards a Prairie Atonement addresses this question by enlisting the help of a Metis Elder and revisiting the history of one corner of the Great Plains.Set on a prairie remnant seven thousand years old, this book's lyric...
This highly acclaimed work reflects on the nature that we, and our religions, sprang from. The biblical story of Jacob has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in Ja...
The Genesis story of Jacob wrestling with the angel is interpreted here as a struggle between Jacob and his wilder twin brother, Esau. Jacob, the farmer, the civilized man, suffers a wound in vanquishing Esau, the hunter...
The author recounts summer days as a youth on a 70-acre piece of land on Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle River, and introduces his immediate and extended family, most of whom are farmers. He describes the effect of mining on t...
Prairie naturalist Trevor Herriot decides the road is how. Recovering from a misstep that could have been his last, he decides to go for a walk to sort through questions that rushed in upon the enforced stillness of wait...
Herriot explores local pastures and open rangeland to discover why birds are disappearing and what, if anything, we can do to save them. He reveals that any hope for the endangered wildness in North America's heartland d...