Here, with writer Gary Holthaus, readers will reflect upon their own sense of place as they travel the lands and enter the lives of people in small towns and on ranches all over the West from Utah to Oregon to Alaska. Farmers and merchants, writers and teachers, truckers and trappers: their stories ring with hope and fear as their wide-open spaces ...
Beginning near Sitka and ending in the Yukon Delta, this collection of essays on Alaska's natural grandeur takes the reader on a grand tour of a great land. Editors Hedin and Holthaus demonstrate the diversity of Alaska through writings that offer a rich understanding of the complexities of the land and its people. The Great Land offers ...
In "From the Farm to the Table", farm families from America's heartland detail the practices and values that relate to their land, work, and communities. Their stories reveal that those who make their living in agriculture - despite stereotypes of provincialism perpetuated by the media - are savvy to the influence of world politics on local issues ...
"In the last ten years it has become popular for westerners to publish books trying to define the area in which they live. This is the one you should read...". -- Books of the southwest
Blending historical, scientific, and literary scholarship with an impressive range of poetic forms, Melinda Mueller masterfully brings us the legendary tale of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. "What the Ice Gets" is an adventure story, a requiem, and a love poem written to 28 heroes and the mythic landscape they set out to ...
Many native North American cultures have origins that predate Confucius, who lived five hundred years before the birth of Christ. For generations the people of these traditions have thrived under conditions that many view as harsh if not hostile. Through their close association with nature, members of native communities have created complex ...
An exploration of the cultures, history, folklore, and movement of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers which border the state of Iowa. As much about Iowa as bordering states and the power of rivers all around the country.
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