Margaret E. Murie Olaus Johan Murie Terry Tempest Williams
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society. Mardy's work as one of the...
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its...
Richard Jefferies Brooke Williams Terry Tempest Williams
- Terry and Brooke]'s quest to understand Jefferies' ideas of a 'soul-life' has brought the British writer's ideas alive...- --THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE -...an oustanding new book...a first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.- --THE UTAH REVIEW -...a small volume that packs a punch.- --THE DURANGO HERALD -The couple converses with Jefferies in the book as if with a new friend...Jefferies' prescient call for solitude in nature has proven itself worth fresh consideration.- --ALBUQUERQUE WEEKLY...
- Terry and Brooke]'s quest to understand Jefferies' ideas of a 'soul-life' has brought the British writer's ideas alive...- --THE SALT LAKE ...
Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they...
Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year