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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxviii, 187 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans - mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer - whose quest for Truth leads them on...
Publisher
Vishnu Ttemple Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven tales of adventure, discovery, danger, and deep solitude await readers of this first-ever anthology of essays devoted to the Grand Canyon backpacking experience. In it, novice canyon hikers express their wide-eyed wonder, while veteran canyoneers reflect on how their lifelong relationship with the place has shaped their character and outlook. Rangers, trail crew workers, scientists, and trail guides weigh in with their unique perspectives....
Author
Publisher
Patagonia
Language
English
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Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into reality. Embarking on an adventure that most only fantasize about, she set sail from Santa Barbara, California, as captain of her 40-foot sailboat, Swell, headed south in search of surf, self, and the wonder and learning that lies beyond the unbroken horizon. In true stories overflowing...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Naturalist Ann Zwinger explores, mostly on foot, the five canyons of the Grand Gulch Plateau, which empty into the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, not far above its confluence with the Colorado. Illustrated with dozens of the author's enchanting drawings, the book recounts the area's history, evokes the dramatic, moon-like landscape, describes the plants, animals, and insects that survive in the arid climate, and captures the moments of terror...
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Language
English
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This is the account of a journey to the holiest mountain on earth, the solitary peak of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic heart of the world and an ancient site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Even today, under Chinese domination, the people of four religions circle the mountain in devotion to different gods. Colin Thubron reached it by foot along the Karnali River, the highest...
7) Whereabouts
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A woman wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition...
8) Hank & Chloe
Author
Series
Hank and Chloe volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling Canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A novel about a young woman’s life-altering affair with a much older, married woman.
Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university’s gym, immediately entranced by this elegant, older person, whom she later learns is married and works at the school. Before long, they begin a clandestine affair. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof, the woman absolutely consumes Mallory,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 106 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend,...
Series
Binge Box volume Comedy drama 1
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs : sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of themed DVDs gathered into one convenient "Binge Box"
The Bucket List | PG-13 | 1h 37min :
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Henry Poole is Here | PG | 1h 39min :
Henry Poole moves into a house in his old neighborhood, to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a "miracle" by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 117 pages; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Moving through the settings of her life red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and profoundly universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on the questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives — experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research,...
Author
Publisher
Wilderness Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 270 pages ; ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wyoming boasts countless outstanding backcountry destinations. While some of these attractions are world famous, many are virtually unknown even to the savviest locals. Award-winning author Douglas Lorain details both famous and hidden treasures in his picks of Wyoming's 28 most enjoyable backpack trips. Lasting from three days to two weeks, these carefully chosen itineraries offer the hiker mountain scenery, magnificent wildlife, colorful geologic...
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