A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf A radical nature-travelogue from the founder of national parks (The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books) by John Muir, TerryGifford Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Vertebrate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-911342-14-4, ISBN: 1-911342-14-2
"'Many a beautiful plant cultivated to deformity, and arranged in strict geometrical beds, the whole pretty affair a laborious failure side by side with divine beauty.' A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf is the second book in John Muir's Wilderness-Discovery series. It is within this work that we are really given strong clues toward Muir's future trailblazing movement for environmental conservation, in such comments as 'The universe would ..."
"Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there ..."
"... sustainability are “clearly beyond the pale” (Thommen 2012, 8). NOTES
simplicity, we only adopt anthropocentrism here. Otherwise we have to. 1. The
quotation in the title is directly from Colum. 3.3.6; trans. Ash: “they make no
provision for the time to come, but, as if living merely from day to day, they etc.” All
quotations of Columella's work are taken from the edition by Rodgers (2010).
This chapter is a significantly revis ..."
"Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there ..."
My First Summer in the Sierra(Updated) The Nature Diary of a Pioneering Environmentalist (Th Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books) by John Muir, TerryGifford Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2017 by Vertebrate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-911342-02-1, ISBN: 1-911342-02-9
"John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly crit ..."
"Muir describes the botanicals of the landscape, his enthusiasm infectious. With a new introduction from Terry Gifford, the message in The Yosemite is more pertinent now than ever."
A Feast of Fools by TerryGifford Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 2018 by Cinnamon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78864-008-4, ISBN: 1-78864-008-X
"Sylvia Plath (2004), Ariel: The Restored Edition (London: Faber & Faber), p. 15.
Plath, Ariel, p. 16. Hughes, Introduction, p. 10. Frieda Hughes, Introduction to
Ariel: The Restored Edition, p. xvii. Emily Dickinson (1970), Emily Dickinson: The
Complete Poems, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (London: Faber & Faber), p. 100. It is
worth keeping in mind, however, that, in 1981, with the publication of the
Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, Hughe ..."
"At the same time, humans also stood outside of nature by virtue of their ability to
make and use tools, and to reshape and distort ... As Clarence Hawks, a minor
practitioner of the wild animal story, wrote, "I now realized that if I ever make a
bad break in ... Seton, Roberts, Long and others presented predators in a more
positive light than did most nature writing of their time. ... Alec Lucas suggests a
number of contributing fa ..."
Ted Hughes From Cambridge to Collected by Mark Wormald, Neil Roberts, TerryGifford Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-27657-5, ISBN: 1-137-27657-6
"Ted Hughes is one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Including a previously unpublished poem written by Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers new insights into neglected but essential aspects of his work. New essays by his friends and fellow poets Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage lead a collection of largely new voices in Hughes studies offering fresh readings and newly available archive research. Beyond ..."
"Ted Hughes is one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Including a previously unpublished poem written by Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers new insights into neglected but essential aspects of his work. New essays by his friends and fellow poets Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage lead a collection of largely new voices in Hughes studies offering fresh readings and newly available archive research. Beyond ..."
John Muir(1st Edition) The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books by John Muir, Joe Simpson, TerryGifford Hardcover, 1,032 Pages, Published 1992 by The Mountaineers Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89886-335-2, ISBN: 0-89886-335-X
" * Muir is perhaps the nation's greatest conservationist * His books reveal why he devoted his life to preserving the West's greatest natural treasures The name John Muir (1838-1914) has come to stand for the protection of wilderness both in the United States and abroad. This is a collection of his eight most influential works in a single volume. The collection represents the lifelong relationship between the landscape and an inspirati ..."
Eastern Birds of Prey A Guide to the Private Lives of Eastern Raptors by Neal Clark, TerryGifford Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 1983 by North Country Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-945980-27-8, ISBN: 0-945980-27-2
"Covering all major birds of prey found east of the Mississippi River, here is a book that not only aids in field identification, but details the whole life cycle of each species."