Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
Audrey Whitson reaches down and stirs something deep in the soul. Her love of the land is respectful, serious, irresistible. The terrain she captures so vividly on paper as a record of her Alberta pilgrimage moves the heart of any reader who has known and loved the prairies. "The land is calling you, no matter who you are, calling you home." This book truly does call the prairie soul back to its home. Whitson's is a journey that is deeply spiritual, without being orthodox. Her spirituality is articulated as understandable and embodied; it is felt through her language and use of metaphor.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.