Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: postcolonial, environment, reading, shapes, civilized, wilderness
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820335681
ISBN-13: 9780820335681

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together. Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with

Author: Wilderness Education Association
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Keywords: series, adventures, outdoor, backpacking, hiking
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0736068015
ISBN-13: 9780736068017

Through Hiking and Backpacking, you can discover the essentials to prepare for your adventure, learn the basic skills and techniques from master teachers, find tips and insights regarding equipment and gear, test your knowledge with questions at the end of each chapter, and learn to use the Web to find great trails and adventures. Hiking and backpacking are great leisure-time activities. But before heading out, you need to know how to ensure a safe, environmentally sound, and enjoyable hiking and backpacking experience. Hiking and Backpacking covers all that, and much more! T

Author: Paul Tawrell
Publisher: Paul Tawrell
Keywords: outdoors, book, ultimate, survival, amp, wilderness, camping
Number of Pages: 1080
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0974082023
ISBN-13: 9780974082028

Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: crusade, america, roosevelt, theodore, warrior, wilderness
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0060565284
ISBN-13: 9780060565282

In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906

Author: Leonard Warren
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: american, wilderness, voice, rafinesque, samuel, constantine
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-07-23
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 081312316X
ISBN-13: 9780813123165

Half a century after the death of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1840, a small number of researchers, biographers, and historians of natural science suggested that the famed botanist’s last name should become the newest adjective in the English lexicon. Had they succeeded, "rafinesque" would have forever been a literary tool to describe those poor souls, occasionally reaching but always aspiring to lofty heights, who brought chronic calamity and defeat upon themselves through grandiose, narcissistic visions of their own importance. Why did some push for one man’s name to become a sign

Authors:Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke,
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Keywords: odyssey, annivers, alaskan, wilderness, man, one
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0882405136
ISBN-13: 9780882405131

To live in a pristine land ... to roam the wilderness ... to choose a site, cut trees, and build a home ... Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man in tune with his surroundings who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.

Author: Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: manual, leader, survival, wilderness
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 1989-08-02
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0883902419
ISBN-13: 9780883902417