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Author : Guy Mountfort
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715349892
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Portrait of a wilderness, etc written by Guy Mountfort and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Pope
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449763138
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Voice in the Wilderness written by William B. Pope and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come take a journey through uniquely beautiful wilderness scenes and discover the powerful yet intimate relationship between the Creator and His creation. Meditate as the Scriptures associated with each photograph dramatically demonstrate Gods voice speaking to us through His masterpiece of creation. Throughout the eons of time, the voice of creation has been etched upon its foundation, hinged onto its framework and scattered throughout its spangled dome. The voice in the wilderness has been there from the beginning. The voice is still calling. As your journey progresses, you will see how each chapters photos highlight a character trait of John the Baptist. John joins the chorus of creation to extol the magnificence of Gods almighty work on our behalf. You will be inspired to view nature from the lens of Gods creative message. The omnipotent designer of natures beautiful complexity desires a relationship with you!
Author : Guy Mountfort
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Portrait of a Wilderness written by Guy Mountfort and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905155
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Journeys in the Wilderness written by John Muir and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published "Stickeen", presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.
Author : Mark W. T. Harvey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989823
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Wilderness Forever written by Mark W. T. Harvey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged outdoorsmen of the earlyenvironmental movement, such as John Muir and Bob Marshall, gave the cause a charismatic face, Zahniser strove to bring conservation's concerns into the public eye and the preservationists' plans to fruition. In many fights to save besieged wild lands, he pulled together fractious coalitions, built grassroots support networks, wooed skittish and truculent politicians, and generated streams of eloquent prose celebrating wilderness. Zahniser worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (a precursor to the Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of the Interior, wrote for Nature magazine, and eventually managed the Wilderness Society and edited its magazine, Living Wilderness. The culmination of his wilderness writing and political lobbying was the Wilderness Act of 1964. All of its drafts included his eloquent definition of wilderness, which still serves as a central tenet for the Wilderness Society: "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." The bill was finally signed into law shortly after his death. Pervading his tireless work was a deeply held belief in the healing powers of nature for a humanity ground down by the mechanized hustle-bustle of modern, urban life. Zahniser grew up in a family of Methodist ministers, and although he moved away from any specific denomination, a spiritual outlook informed his thinking about wilderness. His love of nature was not so much a result of scientific curiosity as a sense of wonder at its beauty and majesty, and a wish to exist in harmony with all other living things. In this deeply researched and affectionate portrait, Mark Harvey brings to life this great leader of environmental activism.
Author : Bruce L. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322927
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Life on the Rocks written by Bruce L. Smith and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Outdoor Book Award Winner: A photo-filled study of the elegant, elusive American mountain goat in its rugged natural habitat. Confined to the remote, rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, the American mountain goat is one of the least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. These extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen, and their lives and fortunes may be the least understood among the continent’s large mammals. Life on the Rocks offers an intimate portrayal of this remarkable animal through the lens of field biologist and photographer Bruce Smith. Color photographs and accounts of Smith’s personal experiences living in Montana’s Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area accompany descriptions of the American mountain goat’s natural history. Smith explores their treacherous habitat, which spans the perilous cliffs and crags of the Rocky, Cascade, and Coast mountain ranges. The physical and behavioral adaptations of these alpine athletes enable them to survive a host of dangers, including six-month-long winters, scarce food sources, thunderous avalanches, social strife, and predators like wolves, bears, lions, wolverines, and eagles. Smith also details the challenges these animals face as their territory is threatened by expanding motorized access, industrial activities, and a warming climate. “The noble mountain goat is exquisitely adapted to place. As this fine book makes clear, though, people are changing those places, and fast. Here's one more face of creation asking implicitly that we back off some.” ―Bill McKibben, environmentalist and New York Times–bestselling author of Falter
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331441182
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Wilderness written by Rockwell Kent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska The other two human characters in this adventuring quest after great and simple things are acquisitions to be thankful for, also; the touchingly tender-hearted, knight-like, beautiful, funny little boy; and lovable, dignified old Olson a fiction writer wonders in despair why old Olson so vividly, brilliantly lives in these unstudied pages, solid, breathing, warm, as miraculously different from all other human beings as any creature of esh and blood who draws the mysterious breath of life beside you in the same room. Fox Island lives too; we walk about it, treading solidly, loving every log and rotten stump, gnarled tree, every mound and path, the rocks and brooks, each a being in itself, just as little Rockwell does; and we climb with the two younger ones up the sheer, snow covered ridge till across the great jagged teeth of fenris-the-wolf, we see the glory of the open sea. We look up at Olson, swaying gigantic on the deck above us, as we bump the side in our little boat and we go down into the warm cabin full of the fumes of cooking and good-fellowship, and drink with the old skipper and the old Swede till we too see deep under the white hard surface of where life is hidden. All this firm earth gives authority and penetration to the shining beauty which pervades the book and the drawings, carries us along to share it, not merely to look at it; to feel it, not merely to admire it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Noémi Lefebvre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945492129
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Blue Self-portrait written by Noémi Lefebvre and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a 90-minute flight, a woman looks back on an affair with a composer in a cerebral, feminist, Bernhardian debut.
Author : Barbara Babcock Lassiter
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Wilderness written by Barbara Babcock Lassiter and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the lives and work of the nineteenth-century artists who were based in New York and traveled to the wilderness areas of the United States and South America to paint the untamed regions they saw.
Author : Jack Loeffler
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826323898
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Adventures with Ed written by Jack Loeffler and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of life. To read Loeffler's account of his best pal's life and work is to join in their friendship. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Abbey came west to attend the University of New Mexico on the G.I. Bill. His natural inclination toward anarchism led him to study philosophy, but after earning an M.A. he rejected academic life and worked off and on for years as a backcountry ranger and fire lookout around the Southwest. His 1956 novel The Brave Cowboy launched his literary career, and by the 1970s he was recognized as an important, uniquely American voice. Abbey used his talents to protest against the mining and development of the American West. By the time of his death he had become an idol to environmentalists, writers, and free spirits all over the West. "Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler were like Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. Loeffler delivers his friend, warts and all on a platter full of reverence and irreverence and carefully researched factual information, interspersed with hearty laughter and much serious consideration of all life's Great Questions. Jack's story elucidates and demythifies the Abbey legend, giving us powerful flesh and blood instead."--John Nichols
Author : Clifford, Frank
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767911288
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Backbone of the World written by Clifford, Frank and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an arresting exploration of America’s longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and unforgiving region inhabited by men and women whose way of life is as imperiled as the neighboring wildlife. With the brutal beauty and stark cadences of a Cormac McCarthy novel, The Backbone of the World tells the story of the last remnants of the Old West, America’s mythic landscape, where past and present are barely discernible from one another and where people’s lives are still intrinsically linked to their natural surroundings. Clifford vividly captures the challenges of life along the Divide today through portraits of memorable characters: a ranching family whose isolated New Mexico homestead has become a mecca for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers; a sheep herder struggling to make a living tending his flock in the mountains above Vail, Colorado: an old mule packer who has spent years scouring the mountains of northwest Wyoming for the downed plane of his son; a Yellowstone Park ranger on a lone crusade to protect elk and grizzly bears from illegal hunters; and a group of Blackfeet Indians in northern Montana who are fearful that a wilderness sanctuary will be lost to oil and gas development. In each of their stories, the tide of change is looming as environmental, economic, social, and political forces threaten this uniquely unfettered population. Clifford’s participatory approach offers a haunting and immediate evocation of character and geography and an unsentimental eulogy to the people whose disappearance will sever a link with the defining American pioneer spirit. Set in a world of isolated ranches, trail camps, mountain bivouacs, and forgotten hamlets, The Backbone of the World highlights the frontier values that have both ennobled and degraded us, values that symbolize the last breath of our founding character.
Author : Guy MOUNTFORT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Portrait of a Wilderness. The Story of the Coto Doñana Expeditions ... Illustrated by Eric Hosking written by Guy MOUNTFORT and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Babcock Millhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Wilderness written by Barbara Babcock Millhouse and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Jones
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Wild Western Scenes written by J. B. Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical fiction novel chronicles the life of Daniel Boone, the legendary American pioneer and frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road into Kentucky, founded Boonesborough, and fought in the Revolutionary War. Despite resistance from American Indians, Boone persevered and helped settle Kentucky, inspiring the archetypal frontier hero of American folklore. This book brings to life the thrilling adventures and challenges that Boone faced, including being taken in by the Shawnee Indians and fighting in the Battle of Blue Licks. Daniel Boone remains an iconic figure in American history, and this book vividly captures his legacy as a folk hero and trailblazer of the American West.
Author : HardPress
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313435345
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Wilderness; a Battle Picture written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Frank Earle Schoonover
Publisher : Methuen Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Edge of the Wilderness written by Frank Earle Schoonover and published by Methuen Publications. This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day book records, stories, paintings and photographs of the travels of the artist, Frank Schoonover, during the early twentieth century.
Author : Gyaneshwari Dave
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359635849
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (596 download)
Download or read book A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature written by Gyaneshwari Dave and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the author's self-portrait sketch on the cover, ""A Word With Wilderness: Poems Inspired by American Nature? is a collection of soulful nature poems accompanied by her elegant and delightful hand-drawn sketches. The gifted poet's subtle yet innocent, and often spiritual way of looking at nature's wonders makes her poetry a joy for any true nature lover - in America or any other part of the world. NOTE: This paperback edition has BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR featuring the illustrations in classic monochrome style. The preview may show color. Gyaneshwari Dave is a writer/poet, illustrator, nature photographer and the founder of www.pineconedream.com.
