Author(s): Ehrlich, Gretel,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 21/03/2019,
Pagination: 144 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Daunt Books,
Published By: Daunt Books,
Book Classification: Biography: general, Memoirs, The countryside & country life, Farm & working animals
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781911547334

Description:

With a new introduction by Amy Liptrot

‘True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.’

In 1976 Ehrlich travelled from her home in New York to Wyoming to shoot a film on sheep herders. While she was there, her partner David died. What started out as a work trip became the beginning of a new life, and a long and deep attachment to place.

Writing of sheep herding alone across Wyoming badlands, being struck by lightning, the true meaning of cowboys, and taking her new husband to the rodeo for their honeymoon, as well as the changing seasons, extreme winters and the wind, Ehrlich draws us into her personal relationship with this ‘planet of Wyoming’ she has come to call home.

In The Solace of Open Spaces, Ehrlich captures the incredible beauty and demanding harshness of natural forces in these remote reaches of the West, and the depth, tenderness and humour of the quirky souls who live there.