Wilderness Or Home

Author : Ron Melchiore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1927685206

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Off Grid and Free by Ron Melchiore Pdf

Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and speaks candidly about the joys and the tribulations of his chosen lifestyle. In this adventure, Ron shares the diversity of his experiences in an easy-to-read, humorous, and sometimes harrowing narrative. The book includes his hiking of the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail in winter, bicycling across the United States, homesteading off grid, the terror of being surrounded by a wildfire, surprise encounters with bears, and more. For readers with an outdoors spirit, people with an off grid and self-sufficiency bent, and dreamers who like to read about adventure, Ron hopes to inspire others to "take the road less traveled."

Author : Kobie Kruger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473526136

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The Wilderness Family by Kobie Kruger Pdf

When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world - a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa's vast Kruger National Park - she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical - and occasionally the most hair-raising - of their lives. Kobie recounts their enchanting adventures and extraordinary experiences in this vast reserve - a place where, bathed in golden sunlight, hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River, storks and herons perched along the shoreline, and fruit bats hung in the sausage trees. But as the Krugers settled in, they discovered that not all was peace and harmony. They soon became accustomed to living with the unexpected: the sneaky hyenas who stole blankets and cooking pots, the sinister-looking pythons that slithered into the house, and the usually placid elephants who grew foul-tempered in the violent heat of the summer. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush and nearly killed him. Yet nothing prepared the Krugers for their greatest adventure of all, the raising of an orphaned prince, a lion cub who, when they found him, was only a few days old and on the verge of death. Reared on a cocktail of love and bottles of fat-enriched milk, Leo soon became an affectionate, rambunctious and adored member of the fmaily. It is the rearing of this young king, and the hilarious endeavours to teach him to become a 'real' lion who could survive with his own kind in the wild, that lie at the heart of this endearing memoir. It is a memoir of a magical place and time that can never be recaptured.

Author : John Keast Lord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026260777

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At home in the wilderness, by 'the Wanderer'. by John Keast Lord Pdf

At home in the wilderness: what to do there and how to do it: a handbook for travellers and emigrants. John Keast Lord author of 'the naturalist in vancouver island' ets.

Author : Sally Carrighar
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140038620

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Home to the Wilderness by Sally Carrighar Pdf

Author : Lynn Schooler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608192892

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Walking Home by Lynn Schooler Pdf

In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. Walking Home recalls Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau or Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, but with a more successful outcome. With elegance and soul, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, to investigate what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.

Author : Gloria Mindock
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557027590

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Wilderness House Literary Review - by Gloria Mindock Pdf

The Wilderness House Literary Review was formed out of the desire of a group of writers and poets to create an online journal for their works. As promised this is a print summary of the best of volume 2.

Author : Charles Dodd White
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804040976

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In the House of Wilderness by Charles Dodd White Pdf

Rain is a young woman under the influence of a charismatic drifter named Wolf and his other “wife,” Winter. Through months of wandering homeless through the cities, small towns, and landscape of Appalachia, the trio have grown into a kind of desperate family, a family driven by exploitation and abuse. A family that Rain must escape. When she meets Stratton Bryant, a widower living alone in an old east Tennessee farmhouse, Rain is given the chance to see a bigger world and find herself a place within it. But Wolf will not let her part easily. When he demands loyalty and obedience, the only way out is through an episode of violence that will leave everyone involved permanently damaged. A harrowing story of choice and sacrifice, Charles Dodd White’s In the House of Wilderness is a novel about the modern South and how we fight through hardship and grief to find a way home.

Author : Steve Glines
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557110780

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Wilderness House Literary Review - The Best of by Steve Glines Pdf

The Wilderness House Literary Review was formed out of the desire of a group of writers and poets to create an online journal for their works. As promised this is a print summary of the best of volume 3.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112112728867

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Home in the Howling Wilderness by Peter Holland Pdf

A major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility of the late nineteenth century? Drawing on letter books and ledgers, diaries and journals, Peter Holland reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Māori and other Pākehā, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers and going to lectures at the Mechanics’ Institute. Examining the knowledge they built up by these routes, Holland lays out how the settlers grappled with droughts and floods, worked out which plants and animals made sense, and worked out how to beat erosion and rabbits. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. They learned to predict weather more accurately, to farm differently with different soil types, to use different techniques of land management. In its depth and breadth of research, and with a visual component of 16 photographs and 22 figures, Home in the Howling Wilderness is a major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. --Publisher's information.

Author : John Baldwin,Linda Bily
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1550177354

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Soul of Wilderness by John Baldwin,Linda Bily Pdf

"Linda and I are fortunate to live near the western mountains of British Columbia, which contain some of the last wilderness areas in North America outside of the arctic. This is an area that supports grizzly bears and wolverines, where salmon run wild and the wolves and mountain goats roam through areas that have not changed since the arrival of Europeans to North America. This book is a look at those wilderness areas: their beauty, their essence, their soul." --John Baldwin In this modern world, where it is estimated that three quarters of the earth's ice-free land mass has been altered by humans, how many people have ever been somewhere they could truly experience pristine wilderness? Few mountain ranges in the world are as wild or beautiful as BC and Alaska's Coast Mountains. From remote fjords to soaring summits, North America's westernmost mountains offer innumerable challenges and sublime delights. And yet they remain relatively unexplored. Partners, co-authors and photographers John Baldwin and Linda Bily have ventured into the magical landscapes of the Coast Mountains. Travelling by foot and ski, their goal was simply to experience and document as much of these remote places as possible--to wander across the high meadows, ski from mountain tops and revel in the artful patterns of new-fallen snow. This stunning coffee-table book is sure to inspire readers to discover and connect with the intense beauty of this mountain wilderness.

Author : Doug Peacock
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1952338042

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Was It Worth It? by Doug Peacock Pdf

"If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness." Edward Abbey In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the wild, asking the question many ask in their twilight years: "Was It Worth It?" Recounting sojourns with Abbey, but also Peter Matthiessen, Doug Tompkins, Jim Harrison, Yvon Chouinard and others, Peacock observes that what he calls "solitary walks" were the greatest currency he and his buddies ever shared. He asserts that "solitude is the deepest well I have encountered in this life," and the introspection it affords has made him who he is: a lifelong protector of the wilderness and its many awe-inspiring inhabitants. With adventures both close to home (grizzlies in Yellowstone and jaguars in the high Sonoran Desert) and farther afield (tigers in Siberia, jaguars again in Belize, spirit bears in the wilds of British Columbia, all the amazing birds of the Galapagos), Peacock acknowledges that Covid 19 has put "everyone's mortality in the lens now and it's not necessarily a telephoto shot." Peacock recounts these adventures to try to understand and explain his perspective on Nature: That wilderness is the only thing left worth saving. In the tradition of Peacock's many best-selling books, Was It Worth It? is both entertaining and thought provoking. It challenges any reader to make certain that the answer to the question for their own life is "Yes!"

Author : Christopher McGrory Klyza
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 1584651024

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Wilderness Comes Home by Christopher McGrory Klyza Pdf

The first book to look at wilderness in the northeastern US, Wilderness Comes Home features a new approach based on ecological reserve design to protect biological diversity, rewilding and restoring lands to wilderness, and embedding wilderness in a landscape of sustainably managed farmland and forestland. It addresses major theoretical and practical aspects of this important issue -- whether, why, and how to reestablish wilderness areas in the Northeast. Although Western wilderness models already exist for undeveloped areas, Eastern models are still evolving. Protection and social management are being urged not for the "forest primeval" but for recovering areas, in which returning species such as moose and peregrine falcons roam over new growth softwoods and hardwoods, interspersed with the stone walls that once marked field boundaries.

Author : Joseph Sophornius Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89069607208

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Wilderness Home, 1854 by Joseph Sophornius Nelson Pdf

Author : Richard Proenneke,Sam Keith
Publisher : Alaska Northwest Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0882409425

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One Man's Wilderness by Richard Proenneke,Sam Keith Pdf

"To live in a pristine land, unchanged by man; to roam a wilderness through which few other humans pass; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available; to be not at odds with thye world, but content with one's own thougts and company. Thousands have had such dreams but Richard Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin and stayed to become part of the country. [This] is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone and the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company"--Publisher's description.

Author : Albert Paine
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040497355

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The Tent Dwellers by Albert Paine Pdf