John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays – spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden – were the perfect apprentices ...
In this testimony the reader is invited to join my thoughts to return to an evening when pain, suffering, and death have enveloped men and women in distress. At a time when some humans, under the blue of the sky, no longer knew on which foot to dance. Returning not because we liked this evening, enjoyed it well. Returning not because the reader will appreciate it, but because certain experiences become a part of us, influence our character as a ...
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness «composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.» At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable contribution–breathtaking in the scope of its research and exhilarating to read.Pyne takes the reader on a journey through time, exploring the terrai ...
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. ...
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management. ...
Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world—a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius” and a “renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe.Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundation ...
In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious “homelands” under apartheid. In the late nineteenth century, South Africa’s Cape Colony completed its incorporation of the area beyond the Kei River, known as the Transkei, and began transforming the r ...
With great warmth and wisdom, award-winning journalist Richard Louv explores the delicate strands of our lives: family, friendship, community, nature, time, and spirit. ...
