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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada–wearing, Four Seasons–loving wife along for the ride. And that’s just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home--experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial. In The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich announced her aspiration as a writer to assign the physical qualities of the earth--weather,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
241 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter Mayle offers us another funny and beautiful book about life in Provence. Here is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have the best of times trying.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them in contact with the charming countryside of Provence, its querulous personalities, petty bureaucracies, and extraordinary wildlife.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archival films and photographs are used to describe Wright's childhood homes, as well as the homes of his early adult life in Illinois and later adult life in Wisconsin and Arizona. Discusses how his development as an architect is best seen in the three homes he built for himself. Includes commentary by experts.
Author
Publisher
Ryland Peters & Small
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In Essentially Irish, antiques dealer and stylist Josephine Ryan offers a privileged glimpse into a fascinating array of private Irish homes. The interiors featured include Georgian country houses, chic city apartments, pretty cottages and contemporary constructions. Their decorative styles may differ, but each home demonstrates the qualities that have made Irish interiors admired the world over- a rich color palette, an affinity with the landscape,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helen Rebanks's beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her Grandmother, and into the home she now shares with her husband, four kids and an abundance of animals. Helen shares, with rare truthfulness, her life in days, sometimes a wonder and a joy but others a grind to...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
116 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an intimate story of one manś search for himself. Investigative journalist Taylor goes looking for Ruess, a young artist who disappeared in the vast sandstone wilderness of southern Utah in 1934, and instead of finding Ruess finds out much about himself.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vii, 291 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the author's first four years in Italy, describing her purchase and restoration of an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside, her transformation of the overgrown gardens, and her discovery of the many links between the food and culture of the region.
17) Orwell's roses
Author
Language
English
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Description
"'In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses.' That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's new book, which presents another side of Orwell, a neglected arcadian Orwell who took enormous pleasure in the natural world and found great meaning and value in it. Orwell's planting of the roses is an axle from which Solnit's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
x, 342 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris is penned by The New Yorker writer and author of the magazine's popular "Paris Journal" column. The private story is rooted in the sentimental re-education of a weary American through the experience of his son's childhood in France.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to animal conservation, protecting the world's endangered species. Then he was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand. His common sense told him to refuse, but he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them.
In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family....
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