Midnight Wilderness

Author : Debbie Miller
Publisher : Braided River
ISBN 13 : 1594856346
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Wilderness written by Debbie Miller and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLICK HERE to download the first 40 pages of Midnight Wilderness * Presents the original foreword by Margaret E. Murie * Features a new afterword by the author, providing context for the Refuge today * Includes a new map and an updated bibliography Originally published more than twenty years ago, Midnight Wilderness is a passionate and vivid account of one of Alaska's greatest natural treasures, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Author Debbie Miller draws on her years of exploring this unique, magical, and expansive territory, weaving chilling adventure, personal anecdote, wildlife observation, and Native American life into a beautiful and compelling memoir of place. Proceeds from sales of this book will benefit the Alaska Wilderness League in its ongoing efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Author : Debbie S. Miller
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613918800
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Wilderness written by Debbie S. Miller and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a passionate and vivid account of traveling within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest and most pristine wilderness region in the United States.

Author : Brooke Williams
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348042
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Midnight written by Brooke Williams and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness—Brooke Williams’s year alone with his dog ground truthing wilderness maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the wilderness almost to Utah, dying a week short. The book is also about two levels of history—personal, as represented by William Williams, and collective, as represented by Charles Darwin, who lived in Shrewsbury, England, at about the same time as Williams. As Brooke Williams begins researching the story of his oldest known ancestor, he realizes that he has few facts. He wonders if a handful of dates can tell the story of a life, writing, “If those points were stars in the sky, we would connect them to make a constellation, which is what I’ve made with his life by creating the parts missing from his story.” Thus William Williams becomes a kind of spiritual guide, a shamanlike consciousness that accompanies the author on his wilderness and life journeys, and that appears at pivotal points when the author is required to choose a certain course. The mysterious presence of his ancestor inspires the author to create imagined scenes in which Williams meets Darwin in Shrewsbury, sowing something central in the DNA that eventually passes to Brooke Williams, whose life has been devoted to nature and wilderness. Brooke Williams’s inventive and vivid prose pushes boundaries and investigates new ways toward knowledge and experience, inviting readers to think unconventionally about how we experience reality, spirituality, and the wild. The author draws on Jungian psychology to relate how our consciousness of the wild is culturally embedded in our psyche, and how a deep connection to the wild can promote emotional and psychological well-being. Williams's narrative goes beyond a call for conservation, but in the vein of writers like Joanna Macy, Bill Plotkin, David Abram, the author argues passionately for the importance of wildness is to the human soul. Reading Williams's inspired prose provides a measure of hope for protecting the beautiful places that we all need to thrive. Open Midnight is grounded in the present by Williams’s descriptions of the Utah lands he explores. He beautifully evokes the feeling of being solitary in the wild, at home in the deepest sense, in the presence of the sublime. In doing so, he conveys what Gary Snyder calls “a practice of the wild” more completely than any other work. Williams also relates an insider’s view of negotiations about wilderness protection. As an advocate working for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, he represents a minority in meetings designed to open wilderness lands to roads and hunting. He portrays the mindset of the majority of Utah’s citizens, who argue passionately for their rights to use their lands however they wish. The phrase “open midnight,” as Williams sees it, evokes the time between dusk and dawn, between where we’ve been and where we’re going, and the unconscious where all possibilities are hidden.

Author : Mark Littleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565072466
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danger on Midnight Trail written by Mark Littleton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christa's cousin Sarah comes for a visit, she seems to do everything better than Christa, until they go hiking and Christa's father is knocked unconscious in a fall.

Author : Diana Fuss
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318986
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Tales written by Diana Fuss and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life—both classic and contemporary—from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more. The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild. From the nineteenth century’s Washington Irving (“Rip Van Winkle”) to the twenty-first century’s Ted Chiang (“The Great Silence”)—a panoramic view of wilderness fiction, from Gothic tales of mystery and suspense (“The Heroic Slave” by Frederick Douglass), to tales of danger and survival (“Walking Out” by David Quammen); from modern tales of retreat and solitude (“Happiness” by Ron Carlson), to never-before-told tales of our new reality—of environment and extinction (“the river” by adrienne maree brown): these are stories that reveal the many ways in which the American literary landscape has shaped—and is shaped by—our conceptions of the wild. Diana Fuss nimbly shows, in her introductory text and commentary throughout, the development of the wilderness story, from its emergence in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Young Goodman Brown”) and James Fenimore Cooper (“A Panther Tale”), to the height of its popularity in the stories of Jack London (“To Build a Fire”), to the environmentally conscious writing of T. C. Boyle (“After the Plague”) and Karen Russell (“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”). Among those whose work appears in the collection: Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Ray Bradbury.

Author : Luke Pearson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838740716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hilda: The Wilderness Stories written by Luke Pearson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEASONS 1 & 2 OF HILDA THE ANIMATED SERIES NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX This special treasury edition contains the first two volumes of Hilda’s adventures— Hilda and the Troll and Hilda and the Midnight Giant— for you to read over and over again, as well as bonus material from series creator, Luke Pearson. Introducing Hilda, the bravest adventurer in Trolberg! Explore the magic, folklore, and mystery of Hilda’s world as she rides fluffy woffs through the sky, dodges trolls through the forests, and catches up with giants the size of mountains. With the help of her lovable deerfox friend Twig, the grumpy (but no less loveable) Wood Man, and with a backpack full of cucumber sandwiches, there’s nothing to stop Hilda from exploring the wilds and getting into sticky situations... "Luke Pearson is one of the best cartoonists working today. Hilda is utterly brilliant!" —Raina Telgemeier, creator of Smile "Plain smart and moving. John Stanley's Little Lulu meets Miyazaki." —Guillermo Del Toro "Luke Pearson's Hilda stories are beloved in our house, and they will surely be enjoyed by audiences for many years to come." —Kazu Kibuishi, creator of Amulet "In Hilda, Luke Pearson has created a truly odd and amazingly beautiful world- Stunningly personal and original. I am in awe of his imagination. He is a real inspiration." —Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy

Author : Jordan D Schniper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692178256
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight in the Wilderness of America written by Jordan D Schniper and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levi Wolff types an idea in indigo ink on an old Corona folding typewriter that causes him to be marked for death. The words form a model of simplicity designed to merge environmental, economic, and strategic challenges into a new paradigm. Research that ultimately makes him a Southern man on the run who disappears off the grid to survive. Now he is about to travel through America's national park system on a journey with the operatives of Secret Eden to deliver a sustainability blueprint as solar flares arrive, auroras cascade, and Earth enters a new dark age.

Author : Roger Kaye
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1889963836
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Great Wilderness written by Roger Kaye and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frames the current debate over potential oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by presenting a detailed history of the establishment of ANWR. Features interviews with survivors from the initial push to establish ANWR in the 1940s and 1950s and with family members and associates of those who are no longer living. Also chronicles the 1980 expansion of ANWR.--(Source of description unspecified.)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Science in a Time of Change Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Science in a Time of Change Conference: Wilderness within the context of larger systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: