Appointment Northwest. / Peter Skrzynecki.
Publication details: Seven Hills : Five Senses Education Pty, Limited, Aug. 2014.Description: vi, 398 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cmISBN:- 1741309972 (Trade Paper)
- 9781741309973
- 371.10092 23
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Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. This is the autobiography / memoir of a young teacher appointed to a one-teacher school at Jeogla on the New England Tablelands in the 1960s: an appointment that leads to the discovery of people, places and poetry. Jeogla, like Walden for Henry David Thoreau, becomes a sanctuary, a retreat for the observation of the natural world, the high country with its mountains, rivers, waterfalls and wildlife; it stirs the awakenings of self-reliance. Included in the narrative is the story of a family?s tragedy and a broken promise, the consequences of which reverberate for many years until they are resolved by the healing process of Time. Or are they?