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The solace of open spaces
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This series of essays about rural life, based on the author's experiences on a small farm in Wyoming, focuses on the people and landscape of the West and explore themes common to all areas.
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
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Ehrlich tells of her travels in Greenland: the months of unpunctuated days followed by months of endless nights, the chain of hospitality that she followed from north to south, and the ruggedness of solo travel in a cold wilderness. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning
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After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a grueling but often exhilarating journey back to the land of the living. Here she invites readers to share that journey, as she hungrily explores the natural and spiritual world to try and make sense of what happened to her.
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Islands, the Universe, Home
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From the author of the highly acclaimed The Solace of Open Spaces, a new book of essays about a remote and beautiful part of America. Ranging from a physical and cultural history of the Channel Islands to a meditation on shelter, this collection demonstrates the author's passion for wildness and silence.
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John Muir: Nature's Visionary
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The life of one of the nation's most prized environmental heroes, John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, is presented through photographs that are further enriched with reproductions of Muir's own drawings.
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The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold
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Greenland's "poet laureate of the cold," Gretel Ehrlich, presents an elegiac memoir of cold climates and the dwindling polar ice caps in this work of poetic travelogue nonfiction. Ehrlich captures the hearty resilience of the human soul in drastically cold climates--Wyoming, the Andes, and remote Northern areas of Russia--chronicling the landscape ...
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Heart Mountain
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The story of Japanese Americans forced into camps as "enemy aliens" in the wake of Pearl Harbour, and the hosts of a small desert town who find themselves host to one of the largest and bleakest of these barbed-wire cities - the Heart Mountain Relocation camp.
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Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist
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Gretel Ehrlish, Gretel Ehrlich
"Questions of Heaven" chronicles a haunting pilgrimage to one of China's holy mountains. For Erlich, a practicing Buddhist, the climb is both a spiritual pilgrimage and a troubling encounter with a culture reeling from recent political history.
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Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories from Wyoming
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"Drinking Dry Clouds" is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese Americans interned at Wyoming's Heart Mountain. Many of these characters were introduced in Ehrlich's novel "Heart Mountain". As she explains, "When I ...
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Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist
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A haunting pilgrimage to one of China's holy mountains. "Ehrlich's highly personal travelogue centers on her attempt to find what remains of (the) once-flourishing spiritual culture in the sacred mountains of western China. . . . (Ehrlich) intersperses her personal narrative with bits of the intellectual, political, historical and spiritual".- ...
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Blizzard Year
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Gretel Ehrlich, Kate Kiesler (Illustrator)
For one year, thirteen-year-old Timmy records in her journal the changes she sees in the natural world and her family's activities on their Wyoming ranch as they fight to save it from financial ruin.
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Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family
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Dayton O Hyde, Gretel Ehrlich (Introduction by)
An inspiring, often amusing account of an Oregon rancher who dedicates himself to saving a struggling species.
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Blizzard Year: Timmy's Almanac of the Seasons
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"Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and unpredictability -- as well as a family attuned to nature's every nuance." --Publisher's Weekly, ...
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A match to the heart
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Gretel Ehrlich
A narrative account of the author's own experience of being struck by lightening. She chronicles her recovery, the physical consequences of the event, and includes an examination of the heart: medical, religious, and cultural.
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Heart Mountain: 3
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This collection of poems describes the experience of Japanese immigrants in an internment camp in Wyoming during World War II.
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Arctic Heart: A Poem Cycle
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Gretel Ehtlich, Gretel Ehrlich, David Buckland (Photographer)
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The horse whisperer : an illustrated companion to the major motion picture
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Gretel Ehrlich
This companion to "The Horse Whisperer" looks at the world of Nicholas Evans' novel and Robert Redford's film. Focusing on the history, landscape and culture of the American West, it explores the role of horses in that world, the truths, the myths and legends about them, and discusses the making of the film. It is introduced by Robert Redford and ...
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Yellowstone: Land of Fire and Ice; Photography by Willard and Kathy Clay
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Gretel Ehrlich
A lavishly photographed and wonderfully informative exploration of the diverse, seemingly incongruent attractions of the Yellowstone Plateau by the acclaimed author of A Match to the Heart and The Solace of Open Spaces.
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Life in the Saddle: Writings and Photographs
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Gretel Ehrlich (Editor)
Essays by writers who share a passion for horses, cowboys, ranchers, and trackers. Includes works by Ivan Doig, Thomas McGuane, Frank Harris, and the book's editor, Gretel Ehrlich.
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Yellowstone: Land of Fire and Ice
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Gretel Ehrlich, Willard Clay (Photographer), Kathy Clay (Photographer)
Yellowstone, the world's first national park, was forged by fire and ice. It is a land of exquisite beauty and stark extremes: geysers spew and hot springs boil in a land of ear-round frost.
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Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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Kathleen Jo Ryan (Photographer), Gretel Ehrlich (Foreword by)
With 15 of today's finest literary writers as your guides, this book will take you into the depths of the Grand Canyon for a ride you will never forget. "For 12 days and 180 miles on the river, I am filled with awe--so struck by it, in fact, that if I have any courage at all, I shall never be the same".--Theresa Jordan. 100+ color photos.
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City Tales
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Edward Hoagland, Gretel Ehrlich
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To Touch the Water
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Tom Trusky (Editor), Gretel Ehrlich
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Nest: An Artist's Sketchbook
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Maryjo Koch, Gretel Ehrlich (Foreword by)
Created by awared-winning illustrator and author Maryjo Koch, and with a foreword by celebrated naturalist Gretel Ehrlich, this luxurious volume contains four-colour images of approximately 50 differents species of birds and their nests.'
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Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place
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Teresa Jordan, Gretel Ehrlich (Foreword by)
Luminous watercolor paintings and graceful essays capture the beauty and spirit of one of America's most spectacular national parks. Artwork from John Muir and Chiura Obata are featured in full color, along with work from Teresa Jordan herself. Specially textured paper approximates the look and feel of a watercolor sketch book, making this a ...
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