Bird Cloud, a memoir, Annie Proulx
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Bird Cloud, a memoir, Annie Proulx
Language
eng
Abstract
The author describes her purchase of six hundred wilderness acres in Wyoming and the designing and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew she wanted to build a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character. "Bird Cloud" is the story of designing and constructing that house and of the enthralling natural history abnd archaeology of the region
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Bird Cloud
Medium
large print
Responsibility statement
Annie Proulx
Sub title
a memoir
Target audience
adult
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