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344) The Poacher's Son
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Description
After his hard-drinking poacher father becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop, Mike Bowditch, with the help of a retired pilot, journeys deep into the Maine wilderness to find his fugitive kin--and the real killer.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"In this collection of essays, Page Stegner threads together natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major white-water rivers. With twenty-five years of rafting behind him, Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first explorations by historical figures like Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell, to modern...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Appears on list
Description
"It is the last weekend of the season for Amy Raye Latour to get away. Driven to spend days alone in the wilderness, Amy Raye, mother of two, is compelled by the quiet and the rush of nature. But this time, her venture into a remote area presents a different set of dangers than Amy Raye has planned for and she finds herself on the verge of the precarious edge that she's flirted with her entire life. When Amy Raye doesn't return to camp, ranger Pru...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Tales of life in the high desert from the author of Raising Wild. As a curmudgeonly, irreverent desert rat, Mike Branch shares his stubborn enthusiasm for the constant struggle to tough out living in an unforgiving landscape. In this collection of short, comic rants he explores various aspects of life in the remote, high-elevation, western Nevada Great Basin desert. Ranging in topic from natural history (bees hiving in the walls of the house, flying...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a...
Author
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
In this provocative walking meditation, forest ranger and writer William Tweed takes us to California's spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada's big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers: How do we address the climate change...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize...
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Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"In Wildlands Philanthropy, writer Tom Butler and photographer Antonio Vizeanno take readers on a visually spectacular tour of preserved landscapes across the Americas and around the globe. Behind each of these places saved for nature, are people. The forty national and state parks, wildlife refuges, and private sanctuaries featured in the book represent the many thousands of natural areas that have been secured by American conservationists using...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where she and her husband tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections.
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The more the crew finds out about the woods, the deeper the mystery gets. With Clay and the Duke teaming up to try and force the school into servitude for the New London army, the kids need to think up a plan to save their peers, and fast. And with Adrian uncontrollable and on the loose, no one knows what his next move will be.."--provided from Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
2000
Description
"John L. Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement - Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto." "Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harper's, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, Thomas places the two men in a vibrant American tradition, supporters of a national commons owned and cared...
360) The wild between us
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"ONE TRAIL. TWO FRANTIC SEARCHES. FIFTEEN YEARS APART. After inheriting his uncle's lodge, Silas Matheson hopes the grandeur of the California Sierra Nevada will be a fresh start for his two young sons, and a chance ton finally face his demons. It was here, fifteen years ago, that Silas and his friends Jessica, Danny, and Meg ventured into the mountain wilderness and Jessica vanished without a trace. When his boys go missing in the same dark woods,...