Michael Branch built his home on a remote hilltop in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, a wild and extreme landscape where he lives with his wife and two curious little girls. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable, this book offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness.
Contents
Pre-Amble: Learning to Walk -- Part One: Birthing -- Endlessly Rocking -- The Nature within Us -- Tracking Stories -- Ladder to the Pleiades -- Part Two: Wilding -- The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie -- The Wild within Our Walls -- Playing with the Stick -- Freebirds -- Part Three: Humbling -- Finding the Future Forest -- My Children's First Garden -- The Hills are Alive -- Fire on the Mountain -- Coda: The V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. Project.