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Cargando... Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home (edición 2014)por Boyd Varty (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. An inspiring memoir about a beautiful country. Well done!Excellent memoir about growing up in a conservation minded family in South Africa. Gerald Durrell for the new Millennium, where saving animals doesn't necessitate relocating them from their habitats, but rather healing the land and peoples around them. The book could have stalled out as a propaganda piece – after all, Varty and his family run Londolozi Game Reserve, a tourist destination. But there is too much honesty in the book for that, too much compassion and vulnerability. This is a powerful story, as much about the man as the place. A surprisingly winsome memoir of a young man who grew up in one of South Africa's leading nature conservationist families. I grabbed the CD version of this book by happenstance, before a long road trip, and was hooked from the first chapter. It's an excellent memoir, excellent at the transition between hunting lodges to nature conservation in South Africa in the last 50 years. It also touches on South African politics, apartheid, male bonding and rituals, the spiritual transcendence of land and creation. Highly recommended especially in audiobook form, read by the author. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I loved this book. Boyd Varty's family reminded me of Gerald Durrell's in My Family and Other Animals. The setting is the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa where Boyd's grandfather lead hunting safaris. Boyd, his parents and his sister have transformed the reserve to a refuge forendangered species. Boyd's personal story is fascinating as he tells of his childhood experiences on the reserve as well as his struggles in coming to terms with a violent attack by robbers. He must leave the reserve in order to overcome trauma and find his purpose. When he returns home he readily joins his family in their efforts to save animals.
The third book, from the second generation of the family of Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, asks me to trust the guide to know where he’s going, and I’m not quite satisfied.
Biography & Autobiography.
Nature.
New Age.
Nonfiction.
HTML:“This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. But it wasn’t just a sanctuary for the animals; it was also a place for ravaged land to flourish again and for the human spirit to be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, he came to the reserve to recover. Cathedral of the Wild is Varty’s memoir of his life in this exquisite and vast refuge. At Londolozi, Varty gained the confidence that emerges from living in Africa. “We came out strong and largely unafraid of life,” he writes, “with the full knowledge of its dangers.” It was there that young Boyd and his equally adventurous sister learned to track animals, raised leopard and lion cubs, followed their larger-than-life uncle on his many adventures filming wildlife, and became one with the land. Varty survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. An intense spiritual quest takes him across the globe and back again—to reconnect with nature and “rediscover the track.” Cathedral of the Wild is a story of transformation that inspires a great appreciation for the beauty and order of the natural world. With conviction, hope, and humor, Varty makes a passionate claim for the power of the wild to restore the human spirit. Praise for Cathedral of the Wild “Extremely touching . . . a book about growth and hope.”—The New York Times “It made me cry with its hard-won truths about human and animal nature. . . . Both funny and deeply moving, this book belongs on the shelf of everyone who seeks healing in wilderness.”—BookPage. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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