Earth, My Likeness

Earth, My Likeness
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Heron Dance Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1933937025

Walt Whitman was indeed a wild soul. His poetry expresses an earthy sensuality out of sync with the industrial times he lived in. His love for wild nature and for the sensual experiences of life is heard in every poem. Editor, Howard Nelson, provides an insightful introduction, shedding light on Walt Whitman's life. This carefully selected collection of poems alongside the beauty of Roderick MacIver's watercolor art creates a grand tribute to this beautiful soul.

The Shademakers

The Shademakers
Author: Paul Binford
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1432792997

The Shademakers is a bit of the Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath era brought to the modern day. The fast-moving storyline is of the young main character who makes his way across the country with migrant workers planting trees. A sense of freedom is shown in the story as well as the idea of how choices play a part in life. Learning about a different lifestyle and being engrossed with unique characters and their scenic surroundings will keep the reader turning the pages.

Thoreau and the Art of Life

Thoreau and the Art of Life
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Heron Dance Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 193393719X

Henry David Thoreau wrote extensively on love, friendship, creativity, spirituality and wisdom. This book draws from his writings to offer unusual insights on living a life of meaning, creativity and reverence. Roderick MacIver's full-color wild nature watercolors enhance this wonderful collection.

True North

True North
Author: Elliot Merrick
Publisher: Heron Dance Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Adventure and adventurers
ISBN: 0975564994

In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission. In 1933 he wrote True North about his experiences in the northern wilderness, living and working with trappers, Indians and with the nurse he met and married in a remote community. The book describes the hard work and severe conditions, along with the joy and friendship he and his wife experienced.

Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence

Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence
Author: Roderick MacIver
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2009-11-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1556439164

Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas. Through their inspirational poetry and other writings and Rod MacIver’s beautiful watercolors, Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence offers readers a retreat from our complex, fast-paced world. This book explores the beauty, strange cohesion, and complexity of the natural world and universe, drawing on sources as diverse as ancient Chinese poets, contemporary songwriters, wilderness adventurers, homesteaders, and modern scientists.

The Laws of Nature

The Laws of Nature
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy of nature
ISBN: 1556439318

Previously published: Ferrisburg, VT: Heron Dance Press, 2006, an expanded version of the text originally published in 2004.

A Death on the Barrens

A Death on the Barrens
Author: George Grinnell
Publisher: Heron Dance Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1933937173

In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, has worked on his account of the journey for fifty years. It is a powerful book of survival and awakening - a physical and spiritual odyssey. A Death on the Barrens, was originally published in 1996. This revised Heron Dance Press edition contains Roderick MacIver watercolors.

The Pull

The Pull
Author: B.D. Morris
Publisher: Brooke Morris
Total Pages: 230
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1301665053

The Gathering Dark

The Gathering Dark
Author: Erica Waters
Publisher: Page Street YA
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1645676234

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten. Hauntings, and a variety of horrifying secrets, lurk in the places we once called home. Written by New York Times bestselling, and other critically acclaimed, authors these stories shed a harsh light on the scariest tales we grew up with.

Discourses In Reality

Discourses In Reality
Author: Gordon McWhorter
Publisher: Gordon McWhorter
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2017-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1548590290

The Center Of All Things is the final story in Gordon McWhorter's secret series, "Discourses in Reality". It finishes the tale started in 2009 with "A Seizure of Landscapes", where Jeff Mallory discovers he is living multiple lives at one time, dragging his son, Tyler into the mix with the second book, "Exponential Uncertainties." Gordon McWhorter takes us even deeper into the rabbit hole, giving us hints and clues in the third book, "Perpetual Existentialism" to then go even further, outside of mind, cheating death, and discovering a whole new world in "An Intellection on the Post Mechanics of Death". The Center of All Things brings these four books into a conclusive heartbeat of finality. Follow Jeff Mallory in his last life as an old friend from his past tells him about The Mandela Effect and why this Earth is no longer real. The real Earth is 25,000 light years away, connected to the Moon and Mars by the enormous trunk of Yggdrasil. Take courage and strength as Jeff discovers the truth, braving the unknown, excelling past the decrees of reality to help his son, Tyler, break the Matrix, and fulfill the purpose of The One Thing.