JOHN RICHARD JEFFERIES (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was a British novelist and essayist who helped pioneer the field of modern nature writing. Jefferies described the English countryside with an intimate vividness and expansive passion that inspired both his contemporaries and later writers.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is the author of fourteen books including
Erosion: Essays of Undoing,
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and
When Women Were Birds. Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowships in creative nonfiction, she is the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College. Her work has been anthologized and translated world–wide.
BROOKE WILLIAMS has spent thirty years advocating for wildness, most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as the Executive Director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and a Biology degree from the University of Utah. He has written four books including
Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness, and dozens of articles. He is involved in The Great West Institute, a think tank exploring expansion and innovation in the conservation movement and is currently working on a book about ground–truthing.
Brooke and Terry have been married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming, and Castle Valley, Utah.
SCOTT SLOVIC is professor of literature and environment and chair of the Department of English at the University of Idaho. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 has edited
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. The author of more than 200 articles in the field of ecocriticism, he has also written, edited, and co–edited twenty–one books, including
Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing and
Going Away to Think.
22 Ebooks tarafından Terry Tempest Williams
Margaret E Murie: Two in the Far North
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to t …
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Tom Curry & Carl Little: Island
When artist Tom Curry first moved to Maine, his house overlooked a small, uninhabited island in Eggemoggin Reach. One day, while rowing across to the island, his boyhood fear of water came crashing i …
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Richard Jefferies & Terry Tempest Williams: The Story of My Heart
‘The Williamses anchor Jefferies’ profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding.’ —BOOKLIST, starred review While browsing a Stonington …
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Nina Simons: Moonrise
Explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth and community *; Contains more than 30 essays from successful women leaders, including writers Alic …
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Julian Hoffman: The Small Heart of Things
In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it’s a caterpilla …
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Terry Tempest Williams: The Open Space of Democracy
Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and pa …
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Terry Tempest Williams: Clan of One-Breasted Women
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams’s essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the vital …
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Jim Harrison: Jim Harrison: Complete Poems
Starred Review from Booklist: ‘This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet’s work… [a] landmark collection.’ From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: ‘Jim Ha …
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Larry L. Rasmussen: Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren when Uncertainty’s a Sure Thing
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Charles Bowden: Dakotah
The author of Blood Orchid explores the history of the Sioux alongside that of his own family in this posthumous work.When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of …
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Lowell E. Baier: Earth’s Emergency Room
In Earth’s Emergency Room, author, attorney, and environmental historian Lowell E. Baier celebrates 50 years of the landmark Endangered Species Act of 1973, a bipartisan law passed by Congress and si …
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Wallace Stegner: This Is Dinosaur
This Is Dinosaur was first published in 1955, in the midst of a bitter controversy over the proposed construction of dams at Echo Park. The outcome of the controversy–a congressional vote to prohibi …
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Jonathan B. Jarvis & Gary E. Machlis: Future of Conservation in America
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, an …
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