Download or read book Forest Under My Fingernails written by Walt McLaughlin and published by Heron Dance Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest Under My Fingernails is a beautifully written book about a 267 mile, 33 day backpacking trip. At different times gently introspective, humorous, and thought-provoking, this book explores the changes we go through as we gradually immerse ourselves in the deep woods, and the different rhythms we experience there. Walt's work is relatively unknown, but we regard him as one of the most eloquent nature authors and poets writing today.
Download or read book Forest Under My Fingernails written by Walt McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True North written by Elliot Merrick and published by Heron Dance Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Death on the Barrens written by George Grinnell and published by Heron Dance Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meditations on Nature Meditations on Silence written by Roderick MacIver and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sleeping Island written by P. G. Downes and published by Heron Dance Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of journeys west of Hudson Bay in summer of 1939 to Nueltin Lake.
Download or read book Thoreau and the Art of Life written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Heron Dance Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Laws of Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: Ferrisburg, VT: Heron Dance Press, 2006, an expanded version of the text originally published in 2004.
Download or read book For the Wild written by Sarah M. Pike and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals and the natural world as worthy of protection. Emotions and memories of wonder, love, compassion, anger, and grief shape activists’ protest practices and help us understand their deep-rooted dedicaztion to the planet and its creatures. Drawing on analyses of activist art, music, and writings, as well as interviews and participant-observation in activist communities, Sarah M. Pike delves into the sacred duties of these often misunderstood and marginalized groups with openness and sensitivity.
Download or read book The Shademakers written by Paul Binford and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Twelve Months at Lake Valhalla written by T. E. Trimbath and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Valhalla is along the high rugged crest of the Cascade Mountains. It is wrapped within the Glacier Peak Wilderness and sits along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Download or read book The Pathway of Dreams written by David C. Lawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jackson, a 17-year-old senior in high school, life in his hometown of Ridgelocke was normal and very predictable. That is, until he discovered the mysterious powers of one of Ridgelocke’s greatest secrets, “Somnium Forest.” In the heart of this small town, Somnium Forest—or better known to town members as “Dream Forest”—always carried intrigue and curiosity. Though for Jackson, the intrigue and curiosity becomes a reality as he, through the sequence of random events, finds himself at the threshold of the Forest and on the Pathway to his dreams! A Classical Tale, Pathway of Dreams offers a story that will most certainly touch the heart of the reader and show why taking the sometimes scary, yet important leap of faith will reveal that everybody’s Pathway of Dreams is only a few steps away.
Download or read book He enalu Days written by Benjamin Lane and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life experience of Benjamin Lane and written as an autobiographical novel, He'enalu Days tells the spiritual journey of Dennis Hill, a wild-child surfer growing up in Kai Town, Honolulu, in the early 1980's, who walks into a life of drugs and parties. As a boy, Dennis falls in love with the ocean and the sport of surfing and feels that to he'enalu (surf or slide across a breaking wave) sets him free like nothing else can. Twenty years later, Dennis realizes his brokenness as a human being and cries out to God to save him. A war over his soul emerges, and Dennis discovers the physical realm we all live in reflects a coexisting spiritual realm that we cannot see, a spiritual realm that wields the power to overwhelm the physical realm in an instant. When no person can save him or ease his pain, Dennis discovers that Jesus Christ - the way and the truth and the life - is the only one who can set him free, and that eternity is too long to be wrong. These are his new He'enalu Days.
Download or read book Ancestor Stones written by Aminatta Forna and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author: A “wonderfully ambitious” novel of West Africa, told through the struggles and dreams of four extraordinary women (The Guardian). When a cousin offers Abie her family’s plantation in the West African village of Rofathane in Sierra Leone, she leaves her husband, children, and career in London to reclaim the home she left behind long ago. With the help of her four aunts—Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah—Abie begins a journey to uncover the past of her family and her home country, buried among the neglected coffee plants. From rivalries between local chiefs and religious leaders to arranged marriages, manipulative unions, traditional desires, and modern advancements, Abie’s aunts weave a tale of a nation’s descent into chaos—and their own individual struggles to claim their destiny. Hailed by Marie Claire as “a fascinating evocation of the experience of African women, and all that has been gained—and lost—with the passing of old traditions,” Ancestor Stones is a powerful exploration of family, culture, heritage, and hope. “This is [Forna’s] first novel, but it is too sophisticated to read like one.” —The Guardian
Download or read book The Other Valley written by Scott Alexander Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Soon to be a TV series* A Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024 Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick For fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves. Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it’s the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. Edme—who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly see Odile—is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future. A breathlessly moving “unique take on the intersection of fate and free will” (Nikki Erlick, author of The Measure), The Other Valley is “a stellar debut, full of heartbreak and hope wrapped up in gorgeous prose” (Christina Dalcher, author of Vox).
Download or read book The Dare written by Natasha Preston and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pounding, twisty read! Would you accept the dare? In Marley’s town, seniors are given a prank as a rite of passage…a dare, if you will. The dares start out simple…egging houses, balloons filled with glitter, chickens running loose in the halls. But this is no child’s play. Accepting a dare means you could be expelled, arrested, or worse. No one wants to back down from a dare. But saying yes has consequences, too…
Download or read book Waltzing the Magpies written by Sam Pickering and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unabashedly sensuous and vivid travelogue of the author's year-long family trip Down Under
