The Last Wilderness

Author : Murray Morgan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295745347
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Wilderness written by Murray Morgan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray Morgan’s classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness “as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon." Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area’s settlers—loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucrats—alongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsula’s wildlife and land. Freshly redesigned and with a new introduction by poet and environmentalist Tim McNulty, this humor-filled saga and landmark love story of one of the most formidably beautiful regions of the Pacific Northwest will inform and engage a new generation of readers.

Author : Michael McBride
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938486371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Wilderness written by Michael McBride and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a family who moved to Alaska to live off the land and build a life for themselves.

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.)

Author : Diane Cook
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062333151
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Wilderness written by Diane Cook and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize “More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children.” — Washington Post "5 of 5 stars. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best and worst ways. Loved this."— Roxane Gay via Twitter Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature. Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter’s life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways. At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood and what it means to be human, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary novel from a one-of-a-kind literary force.

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780972152211
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Yellowstone written by Paul Schullery and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.

Author : Russell A. Mittermeier
Publisher : Conservation International
ISBN 13 : 9789686397697
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness written by Russell A. Mittermeier and published by Conservation International. This book was released on 2002 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the work it began in Hotspots, Conservation International identifies thirty-seven vital wilderness areas around the world, including tropical rainforests, arctic tundra, deserts, and wetlands, using more than five hundred stunning color photographs to illuminate the rich diversity of each region.

Author : Axel Bos
Publisher : Warwick House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781894020657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patagonia written by Axel Bos and published by Warwick House Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endless stretches of rugged coastline, spectacular ranges of snow-capped mountains, starkly beautiful plains -- these are the images that "Patagonia" evokes. This remote region at the southernmost tip of the Americas is one of the last areas of true wilderness left in the world.

Author : Erin Hunter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061973645
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seekers #1: The Quest Begins written by Erin Hunter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a thrilling animal fantasy series following the epic journey of three bears, from the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors. When three young bears from different species—black, polar, and grizzly—are separated from their families, fate brings them together on a path that will change their lives forever. Along the way, they will face great danger, terrible tragedies, new landscapes, and situations that require all their ingenuity to survive. For fans of Warriors, Survivors, and animal fantasy series like Wings of Fire and Foxcraft, Seekers is a sweeping and incredible journey through the beautiful, dangerous world of wild bears.

Author : Vance Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness written by Vance Martin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers by P.J. Trezise and D. Roughsey, and J.D. Ovington and A.M. Fox, annotated separately.

Author : Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Last Village written by Alan Rabinowitz and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his journey through the uncharted lands of northern Myanmar, describing new species and trying to persuade the government to preserve the land.