Eating Diamonds

Bears in the kitchen, rattlesnakes at the door--is this any way for a woman in today's world to live? In the author's view, emphatically yes! Loren Cruden states her case in humorous and haunting stories of living up close and personal with Nature, in essays about the vital relationship between human culture and its natural context and in poems reminding us that beauty is participatory. Her portrayal of the wealth to be found in the simplest of human situations asks modern people to look again at what makes life good and the future bright. Complemented with superb wildlife drawings and photographs.