TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gessner, David
AB - 288 ISLE millennia, settlement has seldom encouraged environmentally sound practices of inhabitation. Land use remains a critical dilemma in the West. "Finding common ground and forging mutual understand- ing/' Ronald asserts, is a necessary process to sustain communities and wilderness—to make homes in the West in a way that ultimately respects "the spirit of place" (245,138). Susan Naramore Maher University of Nebraska at Omaha Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey. By Bill Roorbach. New York: Dial P, 2006. Cloth $14.00. Temple Stream, Bill Roorbach's brilliant account of the way his life and the lives of many others connect to a single stream, perfectly weaves a human story with a natural one. To begin with, the book is a thoroughly researched story of Temple Stream, its ecology, and the beavers that live in it, every biological T crossed and hydrological 7 dotted. The stream meanders through Roorbach's backyard in Farmington, Maine, and Roorbach follows it, by canoe and metaphor, as it makes its sinuous journey to the sea. His sentences, long and wending and stream-like, weave together the stream's story with the story of Roorbach's return to his Maine home with his wife, their decision to have a child, their encounters 
TI - Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/14.2.288
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/temple-stream-a-rural-odyssey-jrvxaAXXUh
SP - 288
EP - 289
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -