The Resource The fish ladder : a journey upstream, Katharine Norbury
The fish ladder : a journey upstream, Katharine Norbury
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The item The fish ladder : a journey upstream, Katharine Norbury represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Deschutes Public Library.
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- Summary
- Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie - with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief soon evolves into a journey to the source of life itself, when a chance circumstance forces Katharine to the door of the woman who abandoned her all those years ago. Combining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing and fragments of poems with tales from Celtic mythology, The Fish Ladder has a rare emotional resonance. It is a portrait of motherhood, of a literary marriage, a hymn to the adoptive family, a captivating story of self-discovery. But perhaps most of all it is an exploration of the extraordinary majesty of the natural world
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408859230
- Label
- The fish ladder : a journey upstream
- Title
- The fish ladder
- Title remainder
- a journey upstream
- Statement of responsibility
- Katharine Norbury
- Title variation
- Journey upstream
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie - with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief soon evolves into a journey to the source of life itself, when a chance circumstance forces Katharine to the door of the woman who abandoned her all those years ago. Combining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing and fragments of poems with tales from Celtic mythology, The Fish Ladder has a rare emotional resonance. It is a portrait of motherhood, of a literary marriage, a hymn to the adoptive family, a captivating story of self-discovery. But perhaps most of all it is an exploration of the extraordinary majesty of the natural world
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- NLE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Norbury, Katharine
- Dewey number
- 362.7/34/092
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV887.G7
- LC item number
- N67 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Norbury, Katharine
- Adoptees
- Abandoned children
- Great Britain
- Life change events
- Grief
- Label
- The fish ladder : a journey upstream, Katharine Norbury
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn898752803
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408859230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898752803
- Label
- The fish ladder : a journey upstream, Katharine Norbury
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn898752803
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408859230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898752803
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