Traces the twisting path of Muir's life, from his Scottish childhood to his youthful labors in Wisconsin to his exultant embrace of the nat;ural world. This volume chronicles the life of an American original and celebrates the legacy of naural splendors he fought so tirelessly to preserve.

A collection of essays in which the author discusses her personal relationship with the natural beauty and harshness of Wyoming.

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time. During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen,...

"From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home--experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial. In The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich announced her aspiration as a writer to assign the physical qualities of the earth--weather,...

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands,...

Fifteen women writers and the photographer rafted the Colorado River on various trips between April and October of 1997. The essays and more than 100 color photos document the power of the river and the beauty of the canyon.

A collection of essays on various topics written during the twentieth century.