Killing The Buddha On The Appalachian Trail
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Killing The Buddha On The Appalachian Trail
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Author : John Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Killing The Buddha On The Appalachian Trail written by John Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The allure of the Appalachian Trail has drawn hikers from all around the world to walk its 2,193 miles from Georgia to Maine. In Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail John Turner hikes those rugged miles with us on a journey that begins in the forested southern mountains but also winds through the history of the trail, its geology, its unique hiker culture and the hazards, physical demands, and glories of some of the most beloved and beautiful landscapes on America's eastern seaboard. The journey also takes us to some unexpected places - to Africa in the aftermath of a terrible war, into philosophical exploration about the ethics of hiking, and the author's own inner turmoil as he struggles with past failures. We are introduced to characters as varied, brave and determined as any cast of a Broadway musical, each of them contending with the challenge of climbing steep mountains day after day through rain, mud, cold, and heat. Throughout this epic trek, we walk alongside Turner to experience the daily hardships, the milestones reached, the hike-ending accidents and the little victories along the way to the great mountain at the northern terminus - Katahdin in Maine. Turner guides us to Katahdin through a background of Buddhist teaching that gives meaning to the fellowship, solitude, suffering and ultimate triumph of the men and women who seek to hike the entire Appalachian Trail.
Zen On The Trail
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Author : Christopher Ives
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Zen On The Trail written by Christopher Ives and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Nature categories.
Discover how hiking can be a kind of spiritual pilgrimage—calming our minds, enhancing our sense of wonder, and deepening our connection to nature. Evoking the writings of Gary Snyder, Bill Bryson, and Cheryl Strayed, Zen on the Trail explores the broad question of how to be outside in a meditative way. By directing our attention to how we hike as opposed to where we’re headed, Ives invites us to shift from ego-driven doing to spirit-filled being, and to explore the vast interconnection of ourselves and the natural world. Through this approach, we can wake up in the woods on nature’s own terms. In erudite and elegant prose, Ives takes us on a journey we will not soon forget. This book features a new prose poem by Gary Snyder.
Where We Belong
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Author : Paul Shepard
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Where We Belong written by Paul Shepard and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Nature categories.
Gathered here in book form for the first time, the fourteen essays in Where We Belong exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career and presented chronologically, these pieces vary in setting from the Hudson River to the American prairie to New Zealand. Equally impressive is Shepard's spatial range, as he moves from subtle differences to grand designs, from the intimacy of an artist's brush stroke to a vista of the harsh Greek terrain. Alluding to a range of sources from Star Trek to Marshall McLuhan to the Bible, the writings discuss such topics as the geomorphology of New England landscape paintings, beautification and conservation projects, the Oregon Trail, and tourism. Whether Shepard is pondering why the Great Plains conjured up sea imagery in early observers, or how pioneers often resorted to architectural terms--temple, castle, bridge, tower--when naming the West's natural formations, he exposes, and thus invites us to unshoulder, the cultural and historical baggage we bring to the act of seeing. Throughout the book, Shepard seeks the antecedents of environmental perception and questions whether the paradigm we inherited should be superseded by one that leads us to a greater concern for the health of the planet. This volume is an important addition to Shepard's canon if only for the new view it offers of his intellectual development. More important, however, these selections demonstrate Shepard's grasp of a wide range of ideas related to the physical environment, including the various factors--historical, aesthetic, and psychological--that have shaped our attitudes toward the natural world and color the way we see it.
Hiking Atlanta S Hidden Forests
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Author : Jonah McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Milestone Press (NC)
Release Date : 2014
Hiking Atlanta S Hidden Forests written by Jonah McDonald and has been published by Milestone Press (NC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Travel categories.
"Describes sixty hiking routes within thirty miles of downtown Atlanta. Includes driving and hiking directions, maps, trailhead GPS coordinates, trail highlights, and notable trees for each hike listed"--
An Outdoor Guide To Bartram S Travels
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Author : Charles D. Spornick
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2003
An Outdoor Guide To Bartram S Travels written by Charles D. Spornick and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Travel categories.
The author lovingly reconstructs the journey of eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram, retracing his painstaking survey of the flora, fauna, and cultures of the American Southeast. (Travel)
Always The Mountains
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Author : David Rothenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Always The Mountains written by David Rothenberg and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Nature categories.
David Rothenberg is one of our most eloquent observers of the interplay between nature, culture, and technology. These nineteen pieces exemplify what has been called Rothenberg's "amiable" mix of interests, styles, and approaches. In settings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in upstate New York, Rothenberg discusses the Hudson River School of painters, the hazy provenance of Chief Seattle's famous speech, ecoterrorism, suburbia, the World Wide Web, and much more. He asks if we can save a place less obtrusively than by turning it into a park. He muses on the plight of a pacifist beset by a swarm of mosquitoes. He ascends Mt. Ventoux with Petrarch and Mt. Katahdin with Thoreau. In Always the Mountains, Rothenberg dares us to "enjoy the fundamental uncertainty that grounds human existence," to wean ourselves from the habit of simple answers and embrace the world's vastness.
Teaching The Trees
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Author : Joan Maloof
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
Teaching The Trees written by Joan Maloof and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with Nature categories.
In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof’s engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it—and who, in turn, work to ensure the tree’s survival. Never really at home in a laboratory, Maloof took to the woods early in her career. Her enthusiasm for firsthand observation in the wild spills over into her writing, whether the subject is the composition of forest air, the eagle’s preference for nesting in loblolly pines, the growth rings of the bald cypress, or the gray squirrel’s fondness for weevil-infested acorns. With a storyteller’s instinct for intriguing particulars, Maloof expands our notions about what a tree “is” through her many asides—about the six species of leafhoppers who eat only sycamore leaves or the midges who live inside holly berries and somehow prevent them from turning red. As a scientist, Maloof accepts that trees have a spiritual dimension that cannot be quantified. As an unrepentant tree hugger, she finds support in the scientific case for biodiversity. As an activist, she can’t help but wonder how much time is left for our forests.
Marching Through Georgia
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Author : Jerry Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 1996-10
Marching Through Georgia written by Jerry Ellis and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sherman's March from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864 brought the Confederacy to its knees. Ellis explores the route 130 years later to search for the living, breathing artifacts of the nation's most bitter war, and finds living memories of the Great Lost Cause co-existing with modern American culture.
The Cincinnati Arch
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Author : John Tallmadge
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2004
The Cincinnati Arch written by John Tallmadge and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.
What wilderness lover, asks John Tallmadge, "would ever dream of settling deep in the Rust Belt astride polluted rivers?" The Cincinnati Arch holds the provocative answer to Tallmadge's question, which was prompted by his unplanned relocation from rural Minnesota to urban Ohio. Tallmadge tells of dismaying early encounters with the city's seeming barenness, his growing awareness of its vitality and abundance, and finally his new vision of all nature, from the vacant lots of his neighborhood to our great New England forests and Western deserts. New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the "buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing life forms" around him. More deeply, Tallmadge began to learn from, and not just about, the city. Nature's persistence--within him and wherever he looked--wore away at old notions of wilderness that made no allowances for human culture. The "arch" of the book's title is richly resonant: as the name of a geologic formation molding the urban landscape Tallmadge comes to love; as an archetypal building form; and, in its parabolic shape, as a metaphor for life's journey. Filled with luminous lessons of mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, this is a hopeful guide to finding nature and balance in unlikely places.
An Ancient Path
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Author : Paul R. Fleischman
language : en
Publisher: Pariyatti Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-05
An Ancient Path written by Paul R. Fleischman and has been published by Pariyatti Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-05 with Religion categories.
A collection of talks given by Dr. Paul Fleischman on Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka, these selections explore subjects such as mental health, mindfulness, and cultivating inner peace. They were given to diverse audiences across the world in locations including Boston, Madrid, Vienna, and Dublin. These talks are a valuable introduction to Vipassana meditation, as well as an inspiring resource for those who are already practicing.