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Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2015-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781941821879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1941821871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jimmy Bluefeather by : Kim Heacox
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (“with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in”), he’s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb’s senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue’s gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain’s THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and John Nichols’s THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in. It
Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493008681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493008684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire by : Kim Heacox
A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world. December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.
Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2020-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493049417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493049410 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Only Kayak by : Kim Heacox
Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic! In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment. Braided through the larger story are tales of gold prospectors and the cabin they built sixty years ago; John Muir and his intrepid terrier, Stickeen; and a dynamic geology professor who teaches earth science "as if every day were a geological epoch." Nearly two million people come to Alaska every summer, some on large cruise ships, some in single kayaks--all in search of the last great wilderness, the Africa of America. It is exactly the America Heacox finds in this story of paradox, love, and loss.
Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2021-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493049592 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493049593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhythm of the Wild by : Kim Heacox
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox “our northern Edward Abbey.” In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject—this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali’s inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It’s a celebration of—and a plea to restore and defend—the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it.
Author |
: Max Evans |
Publisher |
: UNM Press |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826342607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826342604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bluefeather Fellini by : Max Evans
Part Taos Indian and part Italian, Bluefeather Fellini walked in two worlds, with occasional direction from an enigmatic spirit guide. His search for life's greatest gifts takes the reader from the mines of the American Southwest to the trenches of World War II Europe in this magical, savage and passionate novel.
Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Society |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822027902469 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Antarctica by : Kim Heacox
Photographs and text profile the geography, wildlife, and landscapes of Antarctica.
Author |
: Nancy Lord |
Publisher |
: Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781513260693 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1513260693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis pH: A Novel by : Nancy Lord
When marine biologist Ray Berringer and his student crew embark on an oceanographic cruise in the Gulf of Alaska, the waters are troubled in more ways than one. Ray's co-leader, a famed chemist, is abandoning ship just as the ocean's pH is becoming a major concern. Something at their university is corrosive, and it's going to take more than science to correct. Powerful bonds are forged among offbeat characters studying the effects of ocean acidification on pteropods, a tiny, keystone species, in this cutting-edge CliFi novel. (Includes author Q&A and reading group discussion questions.)
Author |
: Kim Heacox |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822028162675 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shackleton by : Kim Heacox
Photographs and text profile the experiences polar explorer Ernest Shackleton had as he tried to reach the South Pole in 1914.
Author |
: Eric Wade |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2019-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1945181710 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781945181719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cabin by : Eric Wade
Eric Wade knew he'd finally found the perfect cabin location in the vast wilderness of interior Alaska. He climbed up the river bank to walk on the firm forest floor. He wove through the trees, brushed aside rose bushes and kicked the ground surface like checking a tire. The land spread before him with majestic white spruce and views of a sparkling clearwater river. This is where he would build a log cabin and move his family. He stood among the roses and highbush cranberries a step closer to realizing his dream of wilderness living. His family would grow to love the landscape as much as he did . . . but over time, his dream changed, as did the land itself "A wonderful, addictive love song to the Alaskan wilderness."--Charles Rangeley-Wilson, author of Silver Shoals and The Silt Road "A poet with an axe, a teacher on a river, forever learning and sharing."--Kim Heacox, author of Jimmy Bluefeather and The Only Kayak "A tale of decades spent learning, enjoying and sharing a rare gift."--Howard Weaver, writer and editor at the Anchorage Daily News, where he worked on both of the paper's two Pulitzer Prize winning series "A soulful story of teacher turned student; a man bent on immersing himself in wilderness ways."--Debra McKinney, author of Beyond the Bear "Belongs on the shelf of anyone contemplating finding their own version of the Alaska Dream."--Tom Walker, author of Wild Shots: A Photographer's Life in Alaska and We Live in the Alaskan Bush
Author |
: Andromeda Romano-Lax |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2022-01-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781641293167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1641293160 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Annie and the Wolves by : Andromeda Romano-Lax
A modern-day historian finds her life intertwined with Annie Oakley's in an electrifying novel that explores female revenge and the allure of changing one's past. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiancé—but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley’s midlife struggles, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the “Wolves,” or those who have wronged her. With the help of Reece, a tech-savvy senior at the local high school, Ruth attempts to establish the journal’s provenance, but she’s begun to have jarring out-of-body episodes parallel to Annie’s own lived experiences. As she solves Annie’s mysteries, Ruth confronts her own truths, including the link between her teenage sister’s suicide and an impending tragedy in her Minnesota town that Ruth can still prevent.