Walking The High Desert
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Walking The High Desert
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Author : Ellen Waterston
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2020-06-22
Walking The High Desert written by Ellen Waterston and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-22 with History categories.
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a “trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert” that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species. Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readers—wherever they may be—to consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.
Where The Crooked River Rises
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Author : Ellen Waterston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Where The Crooked River Rises written by Ellen Waterston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Collections categories.
"Ellen Waterston's new book is a slug of juniper air, a breath-taking view of a rough-edged land, as bracing and taut as October morningsùpart celebration, part elegy all love and the wisdom that grows from deep roots in basalt rock. Like Wallace Stegner and Ivan Doig, Waterston writes masterfully about what it meansùwhat it really means -to live in the West."-Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort There is an otherness to the high desert, something momentous and sacred in the purity of the silence. In this compelling collection of personal essays, award winning poet and author Ellen Waterston illuminates the people, places, and landscapes of central Oregon's vast high desert. In Where the Crooked River Rises, Waterston reveals the blessings and challenges of decades spent as a rancher and town resident in a place that has been, and remains, her touchstone and crucible. The high desert is Waterston's teacher, and she describes its lessons with grace and care, inviting readers to look at their own lives through a lens of wide-open spaces, sagebrush and juniper, pumice and rabbit blush.
The Oregon Desert
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Author : Edwin Russell Jackman
language : en
Publisher: Caxton Press
Release Date : 1964
The Oregon Desert written by Edwin Russell Jackman and has been published by Caxton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with History categories.
Historical, biographical and geological information and practical desert folk lore on a 24,000 square-mile area of the Pacific Northwest.
Running From Fear
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Author : Thad Cummings
language : en
Publisher: Elm Hill
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Running From Fear written by Thad Cummings and has been published by Elm Hill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Self-Help categories.
There is no shortage of good books, friends, support groups, therapies, religious teachings, advice and knowledge on how to live a life full of abundance, joy and love. Yet, in so many lives, it barely exists. Fear is the roadblock that keeps us from engaging a life we all desire, but cannot seem to get to because it is always somewhere over there, just out of reach. From our jobs to our relationships, from our past pain to our current despair, to all the negativity that clouds our communities, fear affects everyone, universally. This is a conversation with stories about how we can engage the fears we all face so that they are no longer controlling our lives. This is about turning knowledge into practical wisdom. “If you let the mistakes of your past define the present, you will never have a future.”
Walk
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Author : Jonathon Stalls
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Walk written by Jonathon Stalls and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself. In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams--and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change. While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world. WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices--like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention--Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world--and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.
Surviving The Desert
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Author : Gregory J. Davenport
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2004-02-01
Surviving The Desert written by Gregory J. Davenport and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
• Travel safely through extreme environments • Find water, dress for the environment, create a campsite, signal, and navigate in the desert • Series author Greg Davenport has appeared on ABC's Primetime Thursday and CBS's 48 Hours The techniques and equipment necessary for surviving in the desert are made more challenging by the intense sunlight, wide temperature range, sparse vegetation, and sandstorms, but Greg Davenport shares how to deal with the toughest conditions. Learn how to avoid insects and snakes. Photos and drawings illustrate gear and techniques necessary for survival in the rough and dangerous terrain.
Shapes Of Native Nonfiction
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Author : Elissa Washuta
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-06-28
Shapes Of Native Nonfiction written by Elissa Washuta and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with Literary Collections categories.
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket. Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.
Into A Desert Place
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Author : Graham Mackintosh
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1995
Into A Desert Place written by Graham Mackintosh and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Travel categories.
The author recounts his experiences walking around the Baja California coast, describes the region's desert wildlife, and shares his impressions of the people and landscapes
Walking The Nile
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Author : Levison Wood
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Walking The Nile written by Levison Wood 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 2015-01-01 with Travel categories.
A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers. He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis. He will cross seven, very different countries. No one has ever made this journey on foot. In this detailed, thoughtful, inspiring and dramatic book, recounting Levison Wood's walk the length of the Nile, he will uncover the history of the Nile, yet through the people he meets and who will help him with his journey, he will come face to face with the great story of a modern Africa emerging out of the past. Exploration and Africa are two of his great passions - they drive him on and motivate his inquisitiveness and resolution not to fail, yet the challenges of the terrain, the climate, the animals, the people and his own psychological resolution will throw at him are immense. The dangers are very real, but so is the motivation for this ex-army officer. If he can overcome the mental and physical challenges, he will be walking into history...
Murder And Meth In The High Desert
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Author : Rick Wiley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2018-04-26
Murder And Meth In The High Desert written by Rick Wiley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Law categories.
Murder and Meth in the High Desert is the true story of the 1987 kidnapping and murder of police drug informant Denise Williams. The book follows the lives of the victim, the suspects, and the police officers who investigated the case. One suspect is murdered prior to being convicted. One suspect pleads guilty, and the other stands trial for the murder. The book follows the trial and appeals of this suspect, with actual court testimony from some of the many court trials and hearings. Alan Creech, the lead detective on the Denise Williams case, becomes obsessed with solving the murder. The book describes the many twists and turns the case takes, including the theft of evidence and the attempted murder of a police service dog.