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Caribou Rising

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578051144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Caribou Rising written by Rick Bass and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eloquent voice of Rick Bass has been raised often in celebration and defense of America’s wilderness and wildlife. In Caribou Rising, Bass journeys to one of the sole remaining landscapes on Earth where the wild is entirely untrammeled—Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where great caribou herds gather, calve, and migrate, and where the ancient bond between animals and human hunters still informs daily life. As the Bush administration was pressuring Congress to open the Refuge to oil drilling, Bass traveled to Arctic Village to join the native Gwich-‘in in their annual caribou hunt. He wanted to witness and report on what we all stand to lose if that comes to pass. Caribou Rising details Bass’s time hunting as well as talking with the Gwich-‘in and their leaders, and offers his reflections on the profound differences between that culture and our own, and on the ancient physical and spiritual connection between the Gwich-‘in and the caribou. Those who read this extraordinary testament to the Refuge, the caribou, and the Gwich-‘in will come to appreciate the interconnectedness of all three, and cannot help but be inspired to make a stand in their defense.

Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World

Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527554031
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.

Sustaining the West

Author : Liza Piper
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554589258
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining the West written by Liza Piper and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors’ construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.

Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony

Author : Marion Grau
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567280888
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony written by Marion Grau and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

The Lives of Rocks

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349432
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Rocks written by Rick Bass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stop-in-your-tracks short stories” of survival, sorrows, and the power of our connection to the earth (Booklist, starred review). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Story Prize At once expertly crafted and undeniably moving, these ten stories deftly explore our immutable connection with nature. The centerpiece of the collection is the arresting title story, in which a woman alone in her mountain cabin confronts a terminal illness. In the equally remarkable “Her First Elk,” the same character recalls her most memorable and significant hunting experience. Set in locations ranging from Montana to Texas to Mississippi, the remaining stories further illuminate the consequences of our attitudes toward the environment and each other. This masterly collection lays bare the essentials of life with unparalleled passion and grace. “Bass captures quiet human truths amidst his astonishing portraits of life in the wilderness.” —People “Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection . . . .as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Digs deeply into the geology of the human condition . . . highly polished gems.” —Seattle Times “One of this country’s most intelligent and sensitive short-story writers.” —The New York Times Book Review

With Every Great Breath

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640096310
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book With Every Great Breath written by Rick Bass and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new pieces For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. With Every Great Breath ranges from the extremely local—a long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montana—to the far-flung: the Galápagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

Ecoliterate

Author : Daniel Goleman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111823720X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Ecoliterate written by Daniel Goleman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new integration of Goleman's emotional, social, and ecological intelligence Hopeful, eloquent, and bold, Ecoliterate offers inspiring stories, practical guidance, and an exciting new model of education that builds - in vitally important ways - on the success of social and emotional learning by addressing today's most important ecological issues. This book shares stories of pioneering educators, students, and activists engaged in issues related to food, water, oil, and coal in communities from the mountains of Appalachia to a small village in the Arctic; the deserts of New Mexico to the coast of New Orleans; and the streets of Oakland, California to the hills of South Carolina. Ecoliterate marks a rich collaboration between Daniel Goleman and the Center for Ecoliteracy, an organization best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. For nearly twenty years the Center has worked with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries. Ecoliterate also presents five core practices of emotionally and socially engaged ecoliteracy and a professional development guide.

Shooting and fishing in the rivers, prairies and backwoods of North America, tr. and revised [from Chasses dans l'Amérique du Nord and Pêches dans l'Amérique du Nord] by the chronicler

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Author : Bénédict Henry Révoil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Shooting and fishing in the rivers, prairies and backwoods of North America, tr. and revised [from Chasses dans l'Amérique du Nord and Pêches dans l'Amérique du Nord] by the chronicler written by Bénédict Henry Révoil and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rising of Dawn and Her Vampire Crew

Author : Brian Painter
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662483228
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Rising of Dawn and Her Vampire Crew written by Brian Painter and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn and her crew are at it again. This time they are on a mission to save humanity from a rogue God who wants to turn Dawn into a goddess so he can keep her as his wife. This has Dawn determined for it not to happen but the alure that she feels when she gets a taste of being a goddess leaves her in a total state of confusion. Her crew and her still love to hunt down animals for blood including the great White Shark. This book is a must read!

True North Rising

Author : Whit Fraser
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 1039005608
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book True North Rising written by Whit Fraser and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. "This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level. . . . I couldn't put it down." —Elizabeth Hay, Scotiabank Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on Air In True North Rising, Whit Fraser delivers a smart, touching and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders. Whit had a front-row seat at the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry, the constitutional conferences and the land-claims negotiations that successfully reshaped the North; he's also travelled to every village and town from Labrador to Alaska. His vivid portraits of groundbreakers such as Abe Okpik, Jose Kusugak, Stephen Kakfwi, Marie Wilson, John Amagoalik, Tagak Curley, and his own wife, Mary Simon, bring home their truly historic achievements, but they also give us a privileged glimpse of who they are, and who Whit Fraser is. He may have begun as a know-nothing reporter from the south, but he soon fell in love with the North, and his memoir is a testament to more than fifty years of commitment to its people.

Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America

Author : Bénédict Henry Révoil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America written by Bénédict Henry Révoil and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wild Marsh

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547055169
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Wild Marsh written by Rick Bass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, nuanced celebration of the passing of a year in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley--a new classic from the acclaimed nature writer.

This Luminous Coast

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455316
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book This Luminous Coast written by Jules Pretty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks.East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.

Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition

Author : Emilio Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973330
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition written by Emilio Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on mechanisms of human adaptability. It integrates findings from ecology, physiology, social anthropology, and geography around a set of problems or constraints posed by human habitats.

Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature

Author : S.K. Robisch
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 087417774X
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature written by S.K. Robisch and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal’s physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Author S. K. Robisch examines more than two hundred texts written in North America about wolves or including them as central figures. From this foundation, he demonstrates the wolf’s role as an archetype in the collective unconscious, its importance in our national culture, and its ecological value. Robisch takes a multidisciplinary approach to his study, employing a broad range of sources: myths and legends from around the world; symbology; classic and popular literature; films; the work of scientists in a number of disciplines; human psychology; and field work conducted by himself and others. By combining the fundamentals of scientific study with close readings of wide-ranging literary texts, Robisch astutely analyzes the correlation between actual, living wolves and their representation on the page and in the human mind. He also considers the relationship between literary art and the natural world, and argues for a new approach to literary study, an ecocriticism that moves beyond anthropocentrism to examine the complicated relationship between humans and nature.

Reading Cats and Dogs

Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793611076
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reading Cats and Dogs written by Françoise Besson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on “Stray and Feral Companions,” “The Usefulness of Companion Animals,” and “Problematizing Companion Animals,” Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers’ assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.

Ten Rivers

Author : Ed Struzik
Publisher : CanWest Books
ISBN 13 : 0973671947
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Ten Rivers written by Ed Struzik and published by CanWest Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: