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| Author | : Caroline Van Hemert |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316414433 |
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
| Author | : Eduard Moyà |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Balearic Islands (Spain) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Malcolm Douglas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Expedition to the Kimberley region to produce a film; includes account of dealings and adventures with Aborigines (especially Bardi and Worora); contact history and life style & customs; cave paintings.
| Author | : Harold G. Kelly |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2004-12-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781404254282 |
| Author | : Brian Lucas |
| Publisher | : Bookhouse Fulfillment |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2013-09-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781592989751 |
Here Comes the Sun is the tale of a quest. It offers a clear and honest look at what happens when an illness throws life off track, and how a combination of science, love, and serendipity can help put things right. At the age of thirty-four, Betsy Lucas was diagnosed with late-stage leukemia. Without treatment she had only months to live. At the time her daughters were ten months old and three years old. Together, Betsy and her husband, Brian, started a journey through chemo, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant. The path was far from steady, but with the help of countless supporters and a generous young man in Germany, they put one foot in front of the other, crossing days, months, and years off the calendar on the way to being cured. Here Comes the Sun isn't a cancer story-it's a love story.
| Author | : Pico Iyer |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 030742801X |
One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries–these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer’s latest itinerary. But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk geopolitics with the Dalai Lama. He navigates the Magritte-like landscape of jet lag, “a place that no human had ever been until forty or so years ago.” And on every page of this poetic and provocative book, he compels us to redraw our map of the world.
| Author | : Mark Woods |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2016-06-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1250105900 |
"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal." --Ken Burns Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark’s most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer, given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.
| Author | : John McCarthy |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Arab-Israeli conflict |
| ISBN | : 0593059476 |
The ancient places and stories of the Holy Land are so etched into our cultural and mental landscapes that it is hard to separate ancient tales from modern realities. Of course, this is part of the potency of the place, but also part of the illusion.In
| Author | : Gregory Orfalea |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451642725 |
The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest.
| Author | : Tom Haines |
| Publisher | : University Press of New England |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1512603163 |
On a winter day in 2013, Tom Haines stood in front of his basement furnace and wondered about the source of the natural gas that fueled his insulated life. During the next four years, Haines, an award-winning journalist and experienced wanderer, walked hundreds of miles through landscapes of fuel - oil, gas, and coal, and water, wind, and sun - on a crucial exploration of how we live on Earth in the face of a growing climate crisis. Can we get from the fossil fuels of today to the renewables of tomorrow? The story Haines tells in Walking to the Sun is full not only of human encounters - with roustabouts working on an oil rig, farmers tilling fields beneath wind turbines, and many others - but also of the meditative range that arrives with solitude far from home. Walking to the Sun overcomes the dislocation of our industrial times to look closely at the world around us and to consider what might come next.
