Waterman, Jonathan
Summary: "This breathtaking book highlights the most glorious wilderness areas and nature preserves in North America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Contents: Prologue -- Where the Acadians disappeared in northern Maine -- The wild lands of western Pennsylvania -- The lost country of southeast Oregon -- The high, haunted desert of New Mexico -- Epilogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STAGlover, James M.
Summary: Captivating biography of a giant of the U.S. conservation movement and founder of The Wilderness Society (1935).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARSHALL GLOMacfarlane, Robert
Contents: Beechwood -- Island -- Valley -- Moor -- Forest -- River-mouth -- Cape -- Summit -- Grave -- Ridge -- Holloway -- Storm-beach -- Saltmarsh -- Tor -- Beechwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.10486 MACSummary: A rare scientific odyssey down the Grand Canyon through some of the most treacherous rapids on the planet. From the river cutting through two-billion-year-old stone to the creatures roaming its back-country, the Grand Canyon still has secrets to tell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9132 AMERustad, Harley
Summary: "In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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Summary: Through his deeply poetic and wildly provocative tale of personal transformation, Scott Stillman takes us on a spiritual journey, away from a chaotic world of details, obligations, smartphones and noisy machines, to a place that is unspoiled, untamed, free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wild Soul Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 STILewis, Sian Anna
Summary: These unforgettable locations in Britain’s wild corners range from lighthouses to cottages, from bothies to boats. Although they’re the stuff of dreams, they’re affordable and reachable in reality, and the book gives you invaluable information about the surrounding area, including walks and wildlife. The book is beautifully photographed throughout and even just reading it is an escape in itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2023
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Summary: In the years since they were first transported to an alien wilderness in the depths of space, the students of Bay Point Preparatory High School have had to grow up fast, first simply to survive, and later to build some kind of life on this foreign moon. Now, that new life is being threatened as human nature yet again rears its ugly head, and the students discover something that was once thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boston Mills Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 971.271 WILArnosky, Jim.
Summary: Crinkleroot the forest dweller provides tips for walking in wild places and avoiding such hazards as ticks, poisonous plants, and wild animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.51 ARNLocker, Thomas
Summary: Introduces philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, using selections from his own writings and an imaginary journey into the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOQuammen, David
Summary: "In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 QUAThoreau, Henry David
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil ThoreauMacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
Summary: "An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MACAbbey, Edward
Summary: Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works. In a voice edged with chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ABBBrandt, Nick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.32 BRAMcCarthy, Michael
Summary: "The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCCWeber, Eva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.3678 WEBPowers, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Friede Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 POWGrinnell, George James
Summary: The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens. In 1955 an expedition group was swept over a waterfall in the Arctic region of Northern Canada. Their most experienced person died; most of the gear and emergency food supplies were destroyed. Learn how they made it out-- barely alive-- and of Grinnell's lifelong struggle to find meaning in the midst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2010