This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence by Alan Thein Durning

This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence

Alan Thein Durning

336 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction travel informative reflective slow-paced
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Alan Durning spent several years traveling the world as an environmental policy analyst. When a Filipino tribeswoman asked him to describe his home, he found that he could not, answering weakly, "In America, we have careers, not places." Determine...

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