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Books by Terry Tempest Williams
  | | When Women Were Birds(Reprint) Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-02411-4, ISBN: 1-250-02411-0 "NATIONAL BESTSELLERA "Kansas City Star" Best Book of the Year "Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder." Ann Lamott, author of "Imperfect Birds" "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to d ..." |
 | | Finding Beauty in a Broken World(9th Edition) (Vintage) by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72519-7, ISBN: 0-375-72519-9 ""Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Will ..." |
 | | Erosion Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Sarah Crichton Books ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28006-2, ISBN: 0-374-28006-1 "Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?"We know the elements of erosio ..." |
 | | The Hour of Land(Reprint) A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-13214-7, ISBN: 1-250-13214-2 "Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour ..." |
 | | Red(Reprint) Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72518-0, ISBN: 0-375-72518-0 "As a lifelong desert dweller, Terry Tempest Williams is intimately familiar with the multiple shades of red, and she explores many of them, among other things, in this tribute to the desert and canyon country of southern Utah that she holds so dear. In this collection of essays, poems, congressional testimony, and journal entries (some previously published), she ruminates on the meaning of wilderness and the need to preserve it as a way ..." |
 | | Refuge(Reprint) An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1992 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74024-7, ISBN: 0-679-74024-4 "The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to co ..." |
 | | Pieces of White Shell by Terry Tempest Williams, Clifford Brycelea Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0969-3, ISBN: 0-8263-0969-0 "This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well."To know the oral tradition of Native American people is to feel the se ..." |
 | | Erosion Essays of Undoing (Paperback) by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Picador Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-250-75824-8, ISBN: 1-250-75824-6 "These essays are Williams's call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change." |
 | | The Hour of Land(1st Edition) A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Sarah Crichton Books ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28009-3, ISBN: 0-374-28009-6 "For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, a ..." |
 | | American Birds A Literary Companion by Andrew Rubenfeld, Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2020 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-655-3, ISBN: 1-59853-655-9 "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is both a celebration of the birds around and above us and a field guide to the American soul.Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Now, editors Terry Tempest Williams and Andrew Ruben ..." |
 | | The Open Space of Democracy(Reprint) by Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Frank Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2010 by Wipf & Stock Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-60899-208-9, ISBN: 1-60899-208-X "Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time. ""In a time of despair Terry Tempest Williams offers us hope. In a season of confrontation she provides connection. Against the passions ..." |
 | | Leap(Reprint) by Terry Tempest Williams Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75257-8, ISBN: 0-679-75257-9 "The wonders of biology meet the mysteries of Mormonism in Terry Tempest Williams's spiritual evocation of Hieronymus Bosch's El Jardin de las Delicias. Williams is mesmerized by the painting, and there is much to be fascinated by, including her own stream-of-consciousness exploration of its images and symbolism. The Garden of Earthly Delights, as it's known in English, is part of a triptych, surrounded by wings of paradise and hell. ..." |
 | | Finding Beauty in a Broken World(1st Edition) by Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2008 by Pantheon Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42078-8, ISBN: 0-375-42078-9 "In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of w ..." |
 | | The Open Space of Democracy by Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Frank Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 2005 by Orion Society Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-913098-63-9, ISBN: 0-913098-63-9 "Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time." |
 | | Dakotah The Return of the Future by Charles Bowden, Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-1996-3, ISBN: 1-4773-1996-4 "“On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free.”When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed “Un ..." |
 | | Red(1st Edition) Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42077-1, ISBN: 0-375-42077-0 "As a lifelong desert dweller, Terry Tempest Williams is intimately familiar with the multiple shades of red, and she explores many of them, among other things, in this tribute to the desert and canyon country of southern Utah that she holds so dear. In this collection of essays, poems, congressional testimony, and journal entries (some previously published), she ruminates on the meaning of wilderness and the need to preserve it as a way ..." |
 | | An Unspoken Hunger Stories From the Field (Signed First Edition) by Terry Tempest Williams Hardcover, 143 Pages, Published 1994 by Pantheon Books ISBN-13: 978-0-679-43244-9, ISBN: 0-679-43244-2 |
 | | The Cocaine Kids(Reprint) The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring by Terry Tempest Williams, Terry M. Williams, Terence T. Williams Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1990 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-201-57003-8, ISBN: 0-201-57003-3 "Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in "The Cocaine Kids" is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages of this book." |
 | | The Clan of One-Breasted Women by Terry Tempest Williams 96 Pages, Published 2021 by Penguin Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-14-199703-2, ISBN: 0-14-199703-6 "Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world." |
 | | Erosion Essays on Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Sarah Crichton Books ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71229-7, ISBN: 0-374-71229-8 "Where there once was darkness, well-lit derricks pierce the night sky, competing with stars. In the fall of 2016, I was teaching a class called “Art, Advocacy, and Landscape” with Geralyn Dreyfous, a film producer; Tim DeChristopher, a climate ..." |
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