Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild - Softcover

Markegard, Doniga

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943370141 ISBN 13: 9781943370146

Publisher: Propriometrics Press, 2017

Synopsis

The wolf was so close now... Approaching the place where the edge of the forest met the open meadow, I paused before stepping out from the shadows of the trees. The sun was directly overhead. In that moment I stood frozen in my tracks next to the fresh footprint of the wolf that had led me here. I was sharing this trail with the wolf and I did not want the moment to end. I wanted that wolf to be with me forever. from Chapter Seven, Pack
Through the Pacific Northwest forests and along the rugged coastal shores of California, Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild is a memoir of exploration and survival.
Dawn Again takes readers along on Doniga's journey: the wilderness immersion school where Indigenous elders and wildlife trackers were among her teachers, hitchhiking across the pacific northwest, the moment she first connected with a deer using owl eyes and fox walking techniques, and to Alaska where she fell in love with tracking white wolves and the rigor of wilderness survival.
With chapters on food, permaculture, and more, Dawn Again dives into Doniga's real-life experiences while equipping readers with practical knowledge. When Doniga tracks mountain lions with Erik, a rancher, she finds herself falling in love with more than just nature. She settles down on a cattle ranch on the California coast to start a family, and has to learn how to apply the deep, unshakeable lessons of the wild to her everyday life.

About this title

About the Author:

Doniga Markegard has a background in wildlife tracking, holistic management, and permaculture. Along with her husband Erik and four children, Doniga lives on a coastal ranch in San Gregorio, CA. She is passionate about finding ways to regenerate lands and community through practices that build soil, sequester carbon, capture and purify water, and enhance natural habitat. Doniga has a passion for the natural habitat. Doniga has a passion for the natural world and helping others live a life of balance with the earth.

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development for film and television.

Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese.

Starhawk travels internationally, lecturing and teaching permaculture, earth-based spirituality and ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends. But much of her time is spent on Golden Rabbit Ranch in Western Sonoma County, where together with land manager Charles Williams she is developing a model of carbon-sequestering ranching, incorporating holistic management rotational grazing with sheep and goats, restorative forestry, food forests and perennial systems.

Review:

Dawn Again represents a particularly good example of alternative schooling. The author's experiences as a wildlife observer,mother, and rancher are significant, and descriptions of her immersive nature education in the first third of the work are particularly vivid and clear.
--Foreword Reviews: forewordreviews.com/reviews/dawn-again/

The most powerful and important book I've read this year? No question. Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild, by Doniga Markegard, is eloquent, inspiring, and a must-read for any global educator.
--Wandering Educators: wanderingeducators.com/best/stories/dawn-again-tracking-wisdom-wild.html

Markegard excels as a writer when she describes tracking wolves, especially a "lone white wolf running across the side of a tundra-covered hill."
--Huffington Post: huffingtonpost.com/entry/tracking-doniga-markegard-a-review-essay-on-dawn_us_5a0b9949e4b06d8966cf3389

About this edition

• Publisher: Propriometrics Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1943370141
• ISBN 13: 9781943370146
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328