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Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land de Dan O'Brien

Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land

Autor Dan O'Brien
en Limba Engleză Hardback – sep 2014

Totul a început cu o decizie radicală în 1998: Dan O'Brien a hotărât să renunțe la creșterea tradițională a vitelor pentru a readuce bizonul pe pajiștile din Dakota de Sud. Nu a fost doar o schimbare de model de afaceri, ci o încercare asumată de a repara un ecosistem degradat de decenii de agricultură intensivă. În Wild Idea, remarcăm o maturizare a viziunii autorului față de lucrările sale anterioare. Dacă în The Contract Surgeon Dan O'Brien explora istoria prin ficțiune, iar în Great Plains Bison oferea o perspectivă mai degrabă ecologică și istorică, volumul de față este o mărturie intimă, aproape un jurnal de familie. Ca și Where the Buffalo Roam de Anne Matthews, această biografie transformă documentele și observațiile de teren într-o narațiune fluidă despre supraviețuire. Putem afirma că forța cărții rezidă în onestitatea cu care autorul descrie nu doar biologia bizonului, ci și fragilitatea relațiilor umane într-un peisaj dur. Structura narativă împletește eforturile logistice ale fermei cu momentele de vulnerabilitate ale familiei: maturizarea fiicei sale, suferința unui prieten apropiat și incertitudinea financiară a unui proiect care pare, uneori, o utopie. Tonul este unul reflexiv, lipsit de triumfalism, invitându-ne să reflectăm la modul în care alegerile noastre alimentare influențează direct politicile federale și sănătatea pământului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803250963
ISBN-10: 0803250967
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o poveste autentică despre legătura dintre om și natură. Dincolo de aspectele ecologice, este o lecție despre curajul de a-ți urma o viziune etică într-o lume dominată de profit rapid. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a spiritului american și a demnității unui animal legendar, totul prin prisma unei familii care refuză să renunțe la idealurile sale.

Despre autor

Dan O'Brien este o voce literară marcantă a Marilor Câmpii americane, fiind în același timp biolog și crescător de bizoni. Deși numele său este adesea asociat cu performanța atletică la nivel mondial, în contextul literar el s-a impus prin lucrări care explorează vestul american și ecologia regiunii. Stabilit de peste patru decenii în Dakota de Sud, O'Brien îmbină rigoarea științifică cu talentul narativ, fiind autorul unor volume de referință precum Buffalo for the Broken Heart. Munca sa la ferma Broken Heart este o extensie a filozofiei sale de viață, axată pe conservare și restabilirea echilibrului natural.

Descriere scurtă

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch.
Wild Idea is a book about how good food choices can influence federal policies and the integrity of our food system, and about the dignity and strength of a legendary American animal. It is also a book about people: a daughter coming to womanhood in a hard landscape, a friend and ranch hand who suffers tragedy, a venture capitalist who sees hope and opportunity in a struggling buffalo business, and the husband and wife behind the ranch, wondering if what they’re doing will ever make a difference. At its center, Wild Idea is about a family and the people and animals that surround them—all trying to build a healthy life in a wide and sometimes dangerous land.
 

Notă biografică

Dan O’Brien is the author of numerous award-winning novels and memoirs, including Great Plains Bison, Stolen Horses, Equinox, The Indian Agent, and The Contract Surgeon, all available from the University of Nebraska Press. He founded Wild Idea Buffalo Company in 1997.

Recenzii

“An impressive introduction to [Dan O’Brien’s] talent both as storyteller and visionary environmentalist. In telling the story of how and why he developed his Cheyenne River Ranch in South Dakota into a state-of-the-art operation producing grass-fed, humanely killed, and field-dressed bison meat, O’Brien also gives us the moving story of his own family and work relationships, bird dogs and falconry, as well as a history of the Great Plains and the sacred relationships between the land, the buffalo, and the Lakota people. . . . A sweeping narrative drama that reads like a Tolstoy novel. . . . O’Brien’s enthusiasm is contagious, and his love for the buffalo, the land, and his family and friends who work the land with him is emotionally conveyed to readers through the beauty of his words.”—Franz Burnier, Western American Literature

“[Wild Idea is] at heart (and with heart) a memoir—a frank, moving recounting of the perennial hopes, fears, challenges, disappointments, and joys O’Brien and his family and friends face while trying to live and live with purpose ‘in a Difficult Land.’ . . . As the human stories unfurl, the prairie is ever underfoot and overhead, swirling with snowstorms, withering with drought, and breathing with buffalo herds that ‘seem to disappear into [its] folds.’ . . . O’Brien’s writing is rich with detail, humor, and insight. He is especially gifted at characterizing people in just a few lines of description and dialogue. . . . He is even more skilled at evoking the feeling of being out on the land. . . . Snippets of life, vividly remembered, gradually build into a larger story. . . . Brims with fierce, subtle joy.”—Tyra A. Olstad, Great Plains Research

"[Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land is] a book that elegantly explores the tension between hope and futility in one man’s effort to kindle restoration on the Great Plains."—Carson Vaughan, High Country News

“Dan O’Brien’s book strikes me as a gentle but badly needed confrontation. . . . Figuring out how to realign the way we live with the health of the ecological systems that support us is the single most important challenge of the twenty-first century, and that makes O’Brien’s book an essential meditation.”—Edward Norton, actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity

“Wild Idea is a lyrical tribute to the idea of buffalo back on the plains, the rewards and challenges of putting them there. But it is so much more. It’s about all the life on the prairie, on the hardscrabble ranches and in the small towns. With this book, Dan secures his place as our modern prairie muse.”—Tom Brokaw, NBC journalist and author

“Making strong, lasting connections between the rugged land and the strong people is a staple of life on the Great Plains. Dan O’Brien’s gift is helping people understand this connection and the basic and difficult truth that sustainable living is not simple; it is as matted and dense as the thick fur that defines the buffalo’s very nature.”—Tom Daschle, former U.S. senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate majority leader
 

"A deeply humane book that looks at ranching as a sustainable enterprise, a way of life more than an economic engine. . . . There may be plenty of disappointments out on the Plains, but this book is not one of them."—Kirkus

"[Wild Idea] is a sweet little sagebrush soap opera of extended family joys and travails."—Jim Sterba, Wall Street Journal