A Wild, Rank Place
Author: David Gessner
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1611681448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young writer confronts life, death, and literary ancestors amid the stark beauty of Cape Cod
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Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1439125279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw. We are introduced to the commerce in pearls (and black-market parrots) in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. With humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations, goals, quirks, and eccentricities. Expect to be entertained and moved on this journey through the wilds of science and nature.
A History of Wild Places
Author: Shea Ernshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1982164816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James-a well-known author of dark, macabre children's books-he's led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn't exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it...he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis's abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there's a risk of bringing a disease-rot-into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn't as safe as they believed-and that darkness takes many forms"--
The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1440638659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
Walking
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13:
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Author: Kris Runberg Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780874223293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the 1890s, adventurous souls-- homesteaders, prospectors, speculators, and loggers dazzled by its natural resources--tried their best to tame Idaho's Priest Lake. Yet grand turn-of-the-century Western expansion bypassed the area, sparing its idyllic beauty. In 1897 President Cleveland expanded federal influence over the region and introduced an enduring tension between public and private lands. Still, industrial and recreational use increased. Timber and summer cottages were in high demand. Devastating wildfires also initiated profound change. Population growth accelerated after World War II, and electricity became commonplace. In 1947 a local newspaper crowed, "Priest Lake has become a cult with many vacationists." Today, every privately-owned acre and lot represents past optimism, opportunity, hard work, greed, or politics. "Wild Place" traces those remnants--focusing on stories of the colorful characters who navigated Priest Lake's demanding challenges.
Cape Cod
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInto a Desert Place
Author: Graham Mackintosh
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780393312898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recounts his experiences walking around the Baja California coast, describes the region's desert wildlife, and shares his impressions of the people and landscapes
A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader
Author: Robert Finch
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0881508594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more. The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.
Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places
Author: Dudley Edmondson
Publisher: Adventurekeen
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781591931737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDudley Edmondson believes it is critical for people of color to get involved in nature conservation. He sought out 20 African Americans with connections to nature. The result is a compelling look at issues important to the future of public lands.
