Download or read book Some Wild Visions written by Elizabeth Elkin Grammer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of 19th-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct plausible identities as women and Christians.
Download or read book Wild Visions written by Ben A. Minteer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "place apart" to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.
Download or read book Wild Visions written by Ben A Minteer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable “place apart” to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.
Download or read book George Masa s Wild Vision written by Brent Martin and published by Cold Mountain Fund. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Masa's Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa. Self-taught photographer George Masa (born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan), arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians. Masa's photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate $5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the "Ansel Adams of the Smokies," Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933. In George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa's photographs, accompanied by Martin's reflections on Masa's life and work.
Download or read book Living with a Wild God written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In Living With a Wild God, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.
Download or read book Some Wild Visions written by Elizabeth Elkin Grammer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions Things and Ideas Found in the Wild written by Lonesome Hillbilly and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions are a traditional, time-honored technique for discovering the deeply hidden truths of life and the universe. Knowing they are hidden, seekers have turned to drugs (they thought it was the food of the Gods) or deprivation and torture (to make themseves worthy, to prove how much they deserve to know). But the Truths are not hidden; they are right there in plain sight, and always have been. All you have to do is discard your preconceptions (not an easy thing), ignore what you have been told by Authorities (which amounts to the same thing), and look. That is hardest of all, because people will not believe anything could be that simple and straightforward.That is what this book is about. There is a little about how to do it. You do not need mathematics or a long education. You certainly do not have to be an egghead or a brain-box. Anyone can do it. The rest is things I have seen. There are a couple of flights of fancy, taking the concepts to extremes. There are a few insights that may significantly change your life. Mostly they are simply fresh looks at common things, showing them to be quite different from what "everybody knows." At the least, they are fun. At the most, well, the sky is no limit.
Download or read book Wild Vision written by John Beatty and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a retrospective of John Beatty's work. A journey both graphic and spiritual, where place resonates in all its dimensions - from kayaking down the Colorado River to trekking through the Himalaya, from Boreal forests to landscapes that inspired the life's works of Charles Darwin.
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Download or read book The Works of Sir Walter Scott The heart of Midlothian written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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