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Edward Hoagland
In a luminous memoir of a life richly lived, one of America’s finest writers explores the themes that have shaped his life and work: the glories of the natural world…
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This is not the Africa of Isak Dinsen or Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army drafts child-soldiers after forcing…
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Edward Hoagland, best known for his essays, is also an extraordinary writer as fiction, as readers of his stories The Final Fate of Alligators and Kwan’s Coney Island can attest.
Press, a stockbroker going blind, has lost his job and his wife and is holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers…
Tim Bascom
At the age of three, in 1964, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. Unflinchingly…
Rockwell Kent
A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press’s 1978 facsimile of the original.
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John Muir
Intends to put a conservationist’s passion for nature in relief. This title celebrates the Sierra Nevada, which the author dedicated his life to saving, and recounts his visits to Yosemite…
This classic account of Muir’s three visits to Alaska - in 1879, 1880 and 1890 - recalls his adventures and discoveries, his sojourns among the native tribes, and his unbounded…
America s most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist. Philip Roth
America’s most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist. –Philip Roth
Henry David Thoreau
A collection of quotations by Henry David Thoreau, famous American author, naturalist, and transcendentalist.
An autobiographical narrative by Henry David Thoreau, originally published in 1864. It contains three accounts of trips to Maine: Ktaadn , Chesuncook and The Allegash and East Branch .
Edward Coolbaugh 1908- Hoagland
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This genealogy explores the fascinating history and lineage of the Schoonover family, from its earliest known ancestor to the present day. Along the way, readers will discover stories of migration…
A journal from British Columbia, Notes from the Century Before , has an introduction by David Quammen.
