Authors:Ann Zwinger, Susan Zwinger, Vicki Austin-Smith,
Publisher: Harvest Books
Keywords: wilderness, experience, photographs, writings, women
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1995-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0156002248
ISBN-13: 9780156002240

No longer are the great outdoors the province of men and men alone; in recent years the feminist movement has brought women out of the home in force, to commune with nature and the environment on their own terms. This compilation of word and image celebrates the deep connection between women and the wild, drawing upon the work of award-winning author Margaret E. Murie, naturalist Cathy Johnson, Native American Robin Youngblood and others. Exquisite photographs by Kathleen N. Cook, Pat Leeson, Nancy Simmerman and Kathy Clay complement the text, and almost overwhelm it.

Author: Ann Zwinger
Publisher: Johnson Books
Keywords: grove, aspen
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2002-09
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 155566279X
ISBN-13: 9781555662790

The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment. These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are "a place of all s