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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, Terry Gifford
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 ..."






Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity(Reprint)
(Ecocritical Theory and Practice)
by Christopher Schliephake, Brooke Holmes, Anna Banks, Serenella Iovino, Roman Bartosch, Hannes Bergthaller, Christopher Chinn, Katharina Donn, Terry Gifford, Laurence Grove, J. Donald Hughes, Richard Hutchins, Marguerite Johnson, Aneta Klisczc, Joanna Komorowska, Lucy Mercer, Konrad Ott, Vittoria Prencipe, Kate Rigby, Laura Sayre, Thomas Sharkie, Justine Walter, Jingcheng Xu, Lars Keßler, Keler Lars
Paperback, 390 Pages, Published 2018 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3286-0, ISBN: 1-4985-3286-1

"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 ..."






Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity
(Ecocritical Theory and Practice)
by Christopher Schliephake, Brooke Holmes, Anna Banks, Roman Bartosch, Hannes Bergthaller, Christopher Chinn, Katharina Donn, Terry Gifford, Laurence Grove, Professor J. Donald Hughes
Digital, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3285-3, ISBN: 1-4985-3285-3

"... 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 ..."






Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity
(Ecocritical Theory and Practice)
by Christopher Schliephake, Brooke Holmes, Anna Banks, Roman Bartosch, Hannes Bergthaller, Serenella Iovino, Christopher Chinn, Katharina Donn, Terry Gifford, Laurence Grove, Dr Kate Rigby, Richard Hutchins, Professor J. Donald Hughes, Marguerite Johnson, Aneta Klisczc, Joanna Komorowska, Lucy Mercer, Konrad Ott, Vittoria Prencipe, Laura Sayre, Thomas Sharkie, Justine Walter, Jingcheng Xu, Lars Keßler
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3284-6, ISBN: 1-4985-3284-5

"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, Terry Gifford
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 ..."






John Muir the Eight Wilderness-Discovery Bks.(Updated)
The Yosemite : John Muir's Quest to Preserve the Wilderness Vol. 6
by John Muir, Terry Gifford
Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2017 by Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-911342-12-0, ISBN: 1-911342-12-6

"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 Terry Gifford
Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 2018 by Cinnamon Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78864-008-4, ISBN: 1-78864-008-X






Ted Hughes
from Cambridge to Collected
by Neil Roberts, Terry Gifford, Mark Wormald
255 Pages, Published 2013 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-27658-2, ISBN: 1-137-27658-4

"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 ..."






Nature, Culture and Literature Ser.
Culture, Creativity and Environment
by Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford
Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-282-26549-3, ISBN: 1-282-26549-0






Literature of Nature(1st Edition)
An International Sourcebook
by Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato
Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 1998 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-57958-010-0, ISBN: 1-57958-010-6

"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 ..."






Al Otro Lado Del Aguilar
Poems and Conversation in Spanish and English
by Christopher North, Terry Gifford
Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2011 by Oversteps Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-906856-18-2, ISBN: 1-906856-18-4






Ted Hughes
From Cambridge to Collected
by Mark Wormald, Neil Roberts, Terry Gifford
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 ..."






Literature of Nature
An International Sourcebook
by Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato
Published 1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-585-08898-3, ISBN: 0-585-08898-5






Whale Watching with a Boy and a Goat
by Terry Gifford
Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1998 by Redbeck Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-946980-59-8, ISBN: 0-946980-59-4






Aerospace International Directory of World Airlines
by Malcolm Ginsberg, Terry Gifford
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1998 by Reed Aerospace
ISBN-13: 978-1-900438-02-5, ISBN: 1-900438-02-X






Ted Hughes
From Cambridge to Collected
by Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford, Neil Roberts, N. Roberts
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-27660-5, ISBN: 1-137-27660-6

"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 ..."






Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan
by Liz Adair, Ruth Lavine, Terry Gifford
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Gal Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-9740466-0-0, ISBN: 0-9740466-0-4

"In a country where women are treated as chattel and hidden from public view, Lucy Shook, an American woman, is boss lady to fifteen Afghan men."






Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
by Caryl Churchill, Terry Gifford, Gill Round
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1994 by Longman
ISBN-13: 978-0-582-08297-7, ISBN: 0-582-08297-8






John Muir(1st Edition)
The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books
by John Muir, Joe Simpson, Terry Gifford
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, Terry Gifford
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."



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