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Being CaribouFive Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
by Karsten Heuer
“Being Caribou is one of the best, most evocative, and hard hitting accounts of man’s inhumanity toward life, and of the need for reconciliation between man and the rest of animate creation, I have ever encountered.” Farley MowatMore Details... Shopping for PorcupineA Life in Arctic Alaska
by Seth Kantner
From the celebrated author of Ordinary Wolves, a stunning collection of writing and photographsMore Details... Winter CreekOne Writer's Natural History
by John Daniel
Winter Creek is John Daniel's disarmingly honest story of his
restless youth, looking for meaning in drugs and an active outdoor life
in the West.More Details... An American Child SupremeThe Education of a Liberation Ecologist
by John Nichols
This remarkable book describes a rich and often tormented journey out
of a safe middle-class existence toward belief in what Nichols calls "a
liberation ecology." More Details... Arctic RefugeA Circle of Testimony
by Carolyn Servid and Hank Lentfer, editors
“Arctic Refuge collects almost 30 essays written virtually
overnight. . . . Editors Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid sounded the
alarm when the Bush administration first announced plans to seek
congressional approval for oil drilling the refuge. Among those who
answered the call were Barry Lopez, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest
Williams, Scott Russell Sanders, Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, and Jimmy
Carter.”—David Kipen, San Francisco ChronicleMore Details... At the End of Ridge RoadThe Credo Series
by Joseph Bruchac
One of America’s best storytellers tells his own. Tracing his
progression from a child in the Adirondacks to self-confessed "nature
nut" to jock to acclaimed writer—Native American author Joe Bruchac
blends narrative with history to describe his belief in the vital
importance of stories for himself and the world.More Details... Back Under SailRecovering the Spirit of Adventure
by Migael Scherer
Written with the grace
and momentum of a sailboat running at full speed, Back Under Sail
describes a five-day voyage through breathtaking wilderness and one
woman's voyage outward from deeply isolating experiences. For the
author, the race is of no importance and of the greatest importance. It
is a test of whether she can regain her enthusiasm and passion for life
after suffering a violent attack three years earlier.More Details... The Barn at the End of the WorldThe Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
by Mary Rose O’Reilley
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. More Details... The Book of the Evergladesby Susan Cerulean, editor
The Book of the Everglades is a story of how much was changed
when the vast river of grass was drained and coverted to agriculture,
its natural plumbing channeled so that nearby towns and farms would be
protected from flood and saved in drought...It is a story told by
writers who know how to tell a story, and who convey the workings of
the entire Everglades ecosystem and the impact of its inhabitants.More Details... The Book of the Tongassby Carolyn Servid and Donald Snow, editors
The Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska is the last contiguous expanse of temperate rain forest on the planet.More Details... |
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