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Author : Sierra Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sierra Club Bulletin written by Sierra Club and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."
Author : Robert Wyss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541317
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Built the Sierra Club written by Robert Wyss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing. As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time.
Author : San Diego Chapter Of The Sierra Club
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594858225
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Basics written by San Diego Chapter Of The Sierra Club and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLICK HERE to download the chapter on "Animal Encounters" from Wilderness Basics * The standard text for the San Diego Sierra Club chapter’s Wilderness Basics Course * Extensive updating throughout, including many new photos More than 100,000 copies of Wilderness Basics have been sold over the years, and this new edition will continue as a training staple for those wanting to build their outdoor skills. It is the text used in the San Diego Sierra Club chapter’s signature Wilderness Basics Course (WBC) and is written by chapter members. Updates to this new edition include: * Outdoor Ethics — latest Leave No Trace practices * Conditioning — completely rewritten, with targeted advice for certain health conditions * Outfitting — updates on planning your pack weight, water treatment methods, expanded tent and sleeping system info * Foods and Cooking — new information on how to not dirty a pot, in-the-bag cooking, and Dutch oven cooking * Navigation — completely updated, including information on adjusted declination compasses * Backcountry First Aid — the latest wilderness first aid info, first aid kit materials, and information on the Hantavirus and West Nile Virus * Winter Adventures — added information on predicting changes in backcountry weather There’s more too in this exhaustively updated instructional for outdoor beginners and advanced backpackers, alike. You’ll also appreciate the refreshed appendix of recommended websites for gear and travel info.
Author : W. S. Kals
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Land Navigation Handbook written by W. S. Kals and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to land navigation and offers instruction on choosing and using a compass, reading topographic maps, measuring distances, and navigation using the sun and stars as well as providing a fold-out map, drawings, and photographs.
Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317325
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Seed Keeper written by Diane Wilson and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited. On a winter’s day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her white husband’s farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools. Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708630
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Encounters with the Archdruid written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1977-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
Author : John Hart
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hiking the Bigfoot Country written by John Hart and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1975 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830674
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Power written by Shalanda Baker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.
Author : Steven Jon Holmes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299161545
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Young John Muir written by Steven Jon Holmes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir's formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature. From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir struggled--often without success--to find a place for himself both in nature and in society. Far from granting comfort, the natural world confronted the young Muir with a full range of practical, emotional, and religious conflicts. Only with the help of his family, his religion, and the extraordinary power of nature itself could Muir in his late twenties find a welcoming vision of nature as home--a vision that would shape his lifelong environmental experience, most immediately in his transformative travels through the South and to the Yosemite Valley. More than a biography, The Young John Muir is a remarkable exploration of the human relationship with wilderness. Accessible and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the individual struggle to come to terms with the power of nature.
Author : Richard Kauffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Gentle Wilderness written by Richard Kauffman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217058
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Intertidal Wilderness written by Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of marine natural history first published by Sierra Club Books, now revised and expanded with 15 new images.
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782245
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Nature written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, his many friendships with the humble and famous (including Theodore Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir's passion for the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of national parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, a talented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and a self-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numerous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades.
Author : Audrey D. Benedict
Publisher : Sierra Club Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9780871566478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (664 download)
Download or read book A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Rockies written by Audrey D. Benedict and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael P. Cohen
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970 written by Michael P. Cohen and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club grew into the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. It is devoted to the study and protection of eath's scenic and ecological resources.
Author : Kenneth Brower
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141864
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (418 download)
Download or read book The Wildness Within written by Kenneth Brower and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brower, "the Archdruid," as writer John McPhee called him, shaped the modern environmental movement. He directed or founded organizations including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute and staffed them with young activists whom he inspired with his passion for the land and whose lives he transformed by his belief in their capacity for greatness. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Brower's birth, his son Kenneth Brower interviewed nineteen environmental leaders, disciples, and friends about his father's impact on them personally as well as on the larger community. Amid tales of how David Brower pulled them from oblivion, sometimes drank them under the table, and often set them on courses for the rest of their lives, a nuanced portrait emerges not just of a complex man but of a movement still suffused with his spirit. Book jacket.
Author : Linda Hogan
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807047929
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Radiant Lives of Animals written by Linda Hogan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package. Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit of the world. From her modest forest home in Colorado, and venturing throughout the region, especially to her beloved Oklahoma, she introduces us to horses, packrats, snakes, mountain lions, elks, wolves, bees, and so many others whose presence has changed her life. In this illuminating collection of essays and poems, lightly sprinkled with elegant drawings, Hogan draws on many Native nations’ ancient stories and spiritual traditions to show us that the soul exists in those delicate places where the natural world extends into human consciousness—in the mist of morning, the grass that grew a little through the night, the first warmth of this morning’s sunlight. Altogether, this beautifully packaged gift is a reverential reminder for all of us to witness and appreciate the radiant lives of animals.
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447488385
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Our National Parks written by John Muir and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1901, “Our National Parks” is a fantastic guide to the wild mountain forest reservations and national parks of the United States, exploring their beauty and usefulness in an attempt to encourage contemporary readers to go out and enjoy the natural wonders of North America. John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, author, and glaciologist who famously fought to preserve wilderness in the United States of America. Muir's work describing his adventures in nature have been read by millions the world over and his activism has helped to conserve such important places of natural beauty as the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park in America. Contents include: “The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West”, “The Yellowstone National Park”, “The Yosemite National Park”, “The Forests of the Yosemite Park”, “The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park”, “Among the Animals of the Yosemite”, “Among the Birds of the Yosemite”, “The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911), “Steep Trails” (1918), and “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth” (1913). A Thousand Fields is republishing this classic book now complete with a biographical sketch of the author.
