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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A dual biography of both the glaciers of Alaska and John Muir, the man responsible for teaching America to embrace its wilderness.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A dual biography of both the glaciers of Alaska and John Muir, the man responsible for teaching America to embrace its wilderness.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. An exploration of the mountains, canyons and seashores of America, which looks at some of the country's most inhospitable and magnificent environments, and also discusses modern conservation methods.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A portfolio of essays and images showing the quality of light on Alaskan landscapes, wildlife, people. Five essays are complemented by 28 story photo captions.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A portfolio of essays and images showing the quality of light on Alaskan landscapes, wildlife, people. Five essays are complemented by 28 story photo captions.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Winner, National Outdoor Book Award "Part quest, part rebirth, Heacox's debut novel spins a story of Alaska's Tlingit people and the land, an old man dying, and a young man learning to live."?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A splendid, unique gem of a novel."?Library Journal (starred review) "Heacox does a superb job of transcending his characters? unique geography to create a heartwarming, all-American story."?Booklist "What makes this story so appealing is the character Old Keb. He is as finely wrought and memorable as any character in contemporary literature and energizes the tale with a humor and warmth that will keep you reading well into the night."?National Outdoor Book Awards Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (?with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in?), he?s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb?s senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue?s gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols?s The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner, National Outdoor Book Award "Part quest, part rebirth, Heacox's debut novel spins a story of Alaska's Tlingit people and the land, an old man dying, and a young man learning to live."?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A splendid, unique gem of a novel."?Library Journal (starred review) "Heacox does a superb job of transcending his characters? unique geography to create a heartwarming, all-American story."?Booklist "What makes this story so appealing is the character Old Keb. He is as finely wrought and memorable as any character in contemporary literature and energizes the tale with a humor and warmth that will keep you reading well into the night."?National Outdoor Book Awards Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native (?with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in?), he?s the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb?s senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue?s gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols?s The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Der Mount Kailash in Asien, die Black Hills in Nordamerika oder der Uluru in Australien: Rund um den Erdball gibt es zahlreiche Berge, denen in Geschichte und Gegenwart Heiligkeit zugesprochen wird. Die religiose Verehrung erfolgt mit Gebet, Meditation und Wallfahrt. Man kann diese Berge als Sonden gebrauchen, um hinter das Aussere der Gesellschaften zu blicken. Eine Kontrastfolie dazu bildet das Christentum, das lange wenig Interesse fur die Natur aufbrachte. Erst die europaische Gebirgsforschung und der Alpinismus sorgten fur eine gewisse Offnung. Im Zeitalter des Kolonialismus entstanden so vielfaltige Spannungen. Die Dekolonisation und die okologischen Wende veranderten die religiose Deutungsmacht und gaben der Rede uber heilige Berge einen neuen Sinn. Global bleiben sie indessen ein hervorragendes Beispiel fur kulturelle Diversitat, das auch Fragen der Gendergerechtigkeit und des Umweltschutzes beruhrt.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Der Mount Kailash in Asien, die Black Hills in Nordamerika oder der Uluru in Australien: Rund um den Erdball gibt es zahlreiche Berge, denen in Geschichte und Gegenwart Heiligkeit zugesprochen wird. Die religiose Verehrung erfolgt mit Gebet, Meditation und Wallfahrt. Man kann diese Berge als Sonden gebrauchen, um hinter das Aussere der Gesellschaften zu blicken. Eine Kontrastfolie dazu bildet das Christentum, das lange wenig Interesse fur die Natur aufbrachte. Erst die europaische Gebirgsforschung und der Alpinismus sorgten fur eine gewisse Offnung. Im Zeitalter des Kolonialismus entstanden so vielfaltige Spannungen. Die Dekolonisation und die okologischen Wende veranderten die religiose Deutungsmacht und gaben der Rede uber heilige Berge einen neuen Sinn. Global bleiben sie indessen ein hervorragendes Beispiel fur kulturelle Diversitat, das auch Fragen der Gendergerechtigkeit und des Umweltschutzes beruhrt.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The national park system ranks among Americas most magnificent achievements and the story of its creation reveals how the American landscape shaped our history and character and continues to do so almost 175 years after painter George Catlin first propos.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox our northern Edward Abbey. In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject--this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali's inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It's a celebration of--and a plea to restore and defend--the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it. …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir's life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world.December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir's death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam.Muir's legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This work explores the landscapes, wildlife, plant life, and history of Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Following a timetable of Denali's human history are extensive descriptions of the major mammals, a mammal and bird checklist, and a list of commonly seen of flowering plants.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.