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Title: Claiming Ground
Author: Laura Bell
Narrator: Laurie Birmingham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-10
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyomings Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a mans world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics.
So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which to create a home and family of her own. Yet only through time and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her to see the love she lived through and sometimes left behind.
By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots. Brimming with careful insight and written in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even in isolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption of love, whether given or received.
Critic Reviews:
Bells extraordinary ability to impart a true sense of place on each page reveals a stark and stunning landscape populated with a playbill of peculiar personalities. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Beautiful writing
A beautifully written memoir but at timres disjointed and confusing. But so beautifully wtitten it is still a delight to read.
Disappointing
Slow, monotonous, babble. A difficult listen. What else can I say, not my cup of tea!
Eloquent and real description of ranch life
I thought Ms Bell did a lovely job of describing the people, animals and places. Rarely does an author capture both beauty and harshness.
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Title: Claiming Ground
Author: Laura Bell
Narrator: Laurie Birmingham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-10
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyomings Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a mans world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics.
So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which to create a home and family of her own. Yet only through time and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her to see the love she lived through and sometimes left behind.
By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots. Brimming with careful insight and written in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even in isolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption of love, whether given or received.
Critic Reviews:
Bells extraordinary ability to impart a true sense of place on each page reveals a stark and stunning landscape populated with a playbill of peculiar personalities. (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Beautiful writing
A beautifully written memoir but at timres disjointed and confusing. But so beautifully wtitten it is still a delight to read.
Disappointing
Slow, monotonous, babble. A difficult listen. What else can I say, not my cup of tea!
Eloquent and real description of ranch life
I thought Ms Bell did a lovely job of describing the people, animals and places. Rarely does an author capture both beauty and harshness.