Language Older Than Words

Author: Derrick Jensen

A memoir of an abusive childhood that relates the extraordinary story ofm one man trying to save his own spirit and our planet’s. Comparing his sexually and physically abusive father’s destruction of his family with mankind’s systematic destruction of civilisation. It is a story of hope for regeneration in a landscape of human and natural destruction. Jensen uses his exper….Read More

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