Sanctuary

Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2011

ISBN-13: 9780864927101

<p><b>Winner, Design Edge Regional Design Award<br>Shortlisted, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award</b></p><p>Authentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka was one of Canada&#39;s great pioneering environmentalists. She was best known as a television host, a conservationist, and a driving force behind the internationally acclaimed Marys Point Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve on the Bay of Fundy.</p> <p><i>Sanctuary</i> gives full expression to the intensely personal story of Mary&#39;s life. A daughter of privilege, a survivor of World War II Poland, an architect of dreams, Mary Majka became a passionate environmentalist intent on protecting fragile spaces and species for generations to come.</p> <p>In this amazing story of determination and foresight, Deborah Carr reveals a complex, indomitable, thoroughly human being &#8212; flawed yet feisty, inspiring and inspired.</p>