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Holding Fire - audiobook
Holding Fire - audiobook
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From the award-winning author ofDown from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one guns role in the violence that shaped the American Westa "and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfathers Smith Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men whod come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was a won.a Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand.In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questionsa "of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steela "in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life.Holding Fireis a deeply felt memoir of one Western hearts wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanenta "inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steela "can change.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
From the award-winning author ofDown from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one guns role in the violence that shaped the American Westa "and an impassioned call to forge a new way forwardBryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfathers Smith Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men whod come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was a won.a Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand.In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questionsa "of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steela "in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life.Holding Fireis a deeply felt memoir of one Western hearts wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanenta "inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steela "can change.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
| Kategoria: | Obcojęzyczne |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-0-358-72970-9 |
