'Her voice is authentic from start to finish as she weaves the spiritual and intellectual together to develop an alternative curriculum for environmental education.' - Diane D. I felt that way at the end of this one.'- Jo Anne Pagano, Colgate University I remember Holden Caulfield's saying sometimes you read a book and you wish the author lived next door to you, so you could just talk some more about it. I had to force myself to slow down so that I might appreciate the simplicity, the clarity, and the loveliness, the lovingness of the words themselves. 'I read this book in a single sitting.The words and the tale that they framed pulled me along, promising to bring me to the center of some wisdom. She draws upon Native American sensibilities about place, relationship, and the sacred, in order to deepen our understanding of human/nature bonds, to more fully develop respect and responsibility to others, and to heal the rifts that sometimes set humans at odds with other humans and non-human creatures and threaten life on earth. In reinterpreting journeys and encounters, she maps the shared terrain of the personal, social, and natural fields of our lives. In autobiographical narrative that rings with experience, she describes margins as rich as dynamic abodes, places of crossing over and transition as well as spaces of separation and alienation. In this book, Krall proposes a counter-narrative to the usual reading of marginality. Ecotone: Wayfaring on the Margins, a personal history of place, is written from the perspective of a teacher, naturalist, and feminist and uses the metaphor of the biological ecotone as the boundary where inner and outer landscapes of the woman/nature continuum meet.

Ecotone refugees