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Author : Doug Scott
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555915272
A look at how America has preserved more than 100 million acres of diverse wilderness areas in 44 states, now protected in our National Wilderness Preservation System. Discussion of current visions valuing wilderness and its place in our culture.
Author : Robert Burley
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781773050386
Featuring tributes from award-winning writers In a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada’s first and only urban national park. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Burley’s photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto’s best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands. Though confined to the city limits, An Enduring Wilderness is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN : UCD:31175017357438
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN : OCLC:16706440
Author : Walter H. Kehm
Publisher : Aevo Utp
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1487508344
Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.
Author : J.R. Harris
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680511215
• The author is a distinguished member of the Explorers Club • The author is an unexpected adventurer, disarmingly positive and companionable • Lively stories of remote treks around the world Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris’s extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world’s most tantalizing places―largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, “J. R.,” as he’s known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down‐to‐earth, friendly style. For J. R., it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively drives his VW Beetle across the country to the very end of the northernmost road in Alaska, searching for an answer to a simple question: What is it like to be way out there? How this happened, whom he met, and what he encountered along the way became the foundation for a lifelong attraction to trekking and adventure travel. Subsequent chapters chronologically explore some of his many journeys, revealing an enduring wanderlust honed by his emerging maturity and outdoor skills. Stories of J. R.’s solo treks point to stark contrasts between his urban upbringing and his wilderness wanderings, while tales of adventure with small but diverse groups of friends are enriched by their collective experiences and varying viewpoints about exploration. Way Out There is a lively yet introspective book by a restless soul that will attract countless readers who love to travel, as well as armchair adventurers and communities looking for outdoor role models. The foreword is by the late Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots during World War I
Author : Tari Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1704235979
In The Wilderness: Saved & Suicidal, Tari authentically displays her battle with mental illness in adulthood. She captures the painful healing process from wounds of her childhood and a relationship that broke her to build her, all of which lead her to multiple suicide attempts. In her journey, she discusses the revelation that her experiences parallel when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness three times. Through finding comfort in God's promises and salvation in Christ, Tari uses her rawest moments with Him to show the honest, recovery process of discovering and plucking underlying roots that contributed to her cycle of emotional pain.While shining light on biblical truth and acknowledging stumbles in her healing journey, Tari provides wisdom, prayers, and insight for many to relate. The Wilderness: Saved & Suicidal, seeks to reveal the supernatural works of God, severe chains of shame and guilt, and to remind us that there is no testimony too big, too small, or too familiar that isn't worth sharing for the glory of Jesus Christ.Trigger warning: Please be advised that this book contains graphic content. If you are, were, or know someone that has battled with mental illness, please use your discretion and wisdom upon reading.
Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801455032
In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.
Author : David Louter
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989846
In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State’s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places. Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks.
Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0140086307
Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466559714
Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability have become important objectives, but achieving such goals presents myriad challenges for even the most committed environmentalist. American Environmentalism: Philosophy, History, and Public Policy examines whether competing interests can be reconciled while developing consistent, cohe
Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 080326383X
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402790850
The international bestselling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem explores the eccentric lives of history’s foremost mathematicians. From Archimedes’s eureka moment to Alexander Grothendieck’s seclusion in the Pyrenees, bestselling author Amir Aczel selects the most compelling stories in the history of mathematics, creating a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and enduring theorems. Alongside revolutionary innovations are incredible tales of duels, battlefield heroism, flamboyant arrogance, pranks, secret societies, imprisonment, feuds, and theft—as well as some costly errors of judgment that prove genius doesn’t equal street smarts. Aczel’s colorful and enlightening profiles offer readers a newfound appreciation for the tenacity, complexity, eccentricity, and brilliance of our greatest mathematicians.
Author : David W. Lime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 0962311685
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Wilderness areas
ISBN : OCLC:748329152
