Bøger af Louise Wagenknecht

In the 1970s, Louise Wagenknecht returned to the Klamath River country of her childhood to take a job with the US Forest Service, only to discover that navigating the shoals of professional and personal relationships as an adult was much more challenging than she ever dreamed.

Louise Wagenknecht grew up in one of the West's last company lumber towns, Hilt on the California-Oregon border. There she witnessed the dying years of a unique way of life. White Poplar, Black Locust is the story of transformation, but it is also a noteworthy addition to the literature of place, and a sensitive and richly textured family memoir.

When Louise Wagenknecht's family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in the woods and the lumber mills of northern California's Klamath country. Logging and lumber mills, it seemed, would hold communities together forever.But that booming prosperity would come to an end. Looking back on her teenage years spent along the Klamath River, Louise Wagenknecht recounts a vanishing way of life. She explores the dynamics of family relationships and the contradictions of being female in a western logging town in the 1960s. And she paints an evocative portrait of the landscape and her relationship with it."Light on the Devils" is a readable and elegant memoir of place. It will appeal to general readers interested in the Pacific Northwest, personal memoir, history, and natural history.