Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, for example, makes a titular gesture toward connecting her family and a natural place she has grown to love, which in this case is the Bear River Bird Refuge in northern Utah. She argues throughout the book that her family's history is irrevocably "tied to the land" (14). In Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez makes a similar point but about a landscape much further from home;
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, for example, makes a titular gesture toward connecting her family and a natural place she has grown to love, which in this case is the Bear River Bird Refuge in northern Utah. She argues throughout the book that her family's history is irrevocably "tied to the land" (14). In Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez makes a similar point but about a landscape much further from home;