The Wilderness Journeys

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0862415861
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilderness Journeys written by John Muir and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a marriage of scientific survey and natural history."--Publisher.

Author : J.R. Harris
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680511211
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Way Out There written by J.R. Harris and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The author is a distinguished member of the Explorers Club • The author is an unexpected adventurer, disarmingly positive and companionable • Lively stories of remote treks around the world Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris’s extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world’s most tantalizing places―largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, “J. R.,” as he’s known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down‐to‐earth, friendly style. For J. R., it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively drives his VW Beetle across the country to the very end of the northernmost road in Alaska, searching for an answer to a simple question: What is it like to be way out there? How this happened, whom he met, and what he encountered along the way became the foundation for a lifelong attraction to trekking and adventure travel. Subsequent chapters chronologically explore some of his many journeys, revealing an enduring wanderlust honed by his emerging maturity and outdoor skills. Stories of J. R.’s solo treks point to stark contrasts between his urban upbringing and his wilderness wanderings, while tales of adventure with small but diverse groups of friends are enriched by their collective experiences and varying viewpoints about exploration. Way Out There is a lively yet introspective book by a restless soul that will attract countless readers who love to travel, as well as armchair adventurers and communities looking for outdoor role models. The foreword is by the late Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots during World War I

Author : William O. Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Journey written by William O. Steele and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flan travels through the wilderness with a Long Hunter and learns to respect his own abilities.

Author : Cory Driver
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506463215
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Unsettled written by Cory Driver and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, many Christians and spiritual seekers feel they are in a sort of wilderness space where the familiar, settled, and normal parts of life have become unsettled, out of balance. More and more people are evaluating their lives and asking, Where to now? In Life Unsettled, Cory Driver uses the metaphor of wilderness journeying (a hallmark of the life of faith across the millennia) and the study of biblical texts, ancient Jewish legends, modern theological insights, and his own personal journeys to provide a guide for moving forward when we feel lost and confused. The biblical book of Numbers takes center stage in the author's creative musings about life in the wilderness. The Hebrew title of Numbers is Bemidbar, which means In the Wilderness. In this oft-overlooked book are stories of God's passionate intimacy and anger, communal formation and struggles, and personal failures and triumphs. The author shows how the wilderness journey in Numbers has a deep relevance for our time and for our personal journeys. The book includes a discussion guide ideal for group use.

Author : Lynn Schooler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819289X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Home written by Lynn Schooler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. Walking Home recalls Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau or Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, but with a more successful outcome. With elegance and soul, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, to investigate what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.

Author : Miriam Korner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889955707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qaqavii written by Miriam Korner and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming-of-age adventure story set in the North featuring a strong female lead, her Indigenous friend, and a cast of diverse dogs all in training for the daring Arctic Quest dog-sledding competition."--

Author : Jacob Rhett Motte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813064581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey Into Wilderness written by Jacob Rhett Motte and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book has a double value in the text of the author and the annotation by the editor. The author adds to . . . our knowledge of the peninsula warfare and gives probably the best extant account of operations in the north central region of Florida and in southern Georgia."-Journal of Southern History "The reader gets a good feeling of what campaigning in Florida meant to one used to the comforts of Charleston and Cambridge. . . . Lively, humorous, and very easy to read. In style the book is far above most descriptions of the Seminole Wars written by participants."-Florida Historical Quarterly In 1836, 24-year-old Jacob Rhett Motte, a Harvard-educated southern gentleman with a literary flair, departed his hometown of Charleston to serve as an Army surgeon in wars against the Creek and Seminole Indians. He found himself transported from aristocratic social circles into a wild frontier. Motte recorded his experiences in a lively journal, presented in full in Journey into Wilderness. In his journal, Motte relates observations of Indian warfare from southern Georgia and eastern Alabama to Key Largo in Florida. He reports his impressions of pioneer settlements, military fortifications, towns, roads, frontier life and society, and geography. His journal also offers glimpses of the economic, political, and religious trends of the time. A fascinating story and travelogue, it is a rare firsthand account of life on the Georgia-Alabama-Florida frontier.

Author : Kenneth Wadness
Publisher : Harmony House Publishers (KY)
ISBN 13 : 9781564690340
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojourn in the Wilderness written by Kenneth Wadness and published by Harmony House Publishers (KY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of an inspirational southbound thru-hike, disguised as a stunning "coffee-table" book of photography.

Author : David Cumes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567181951
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner Passages, Outer Journeys written by David Cumes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those with an adventurous spirit who may or may not have defined their spiritual path, "Inner Passages Outer Journeys" addresses the psychospiritual, healing and restorative effects of nature, and describes how to amplify experiences through transformational practices. Photos & illustrations.

Author : Misty M. Beller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999701232
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Wilderness Journey written by Misty M. Beller and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's been sent to retrieve the new missionary... But she's not at all who he expects to find.