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Gullies of My People
An Excavation of Landscape and Family
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780820365442
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother’s tenant farming family...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820356853
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his...
Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820356242
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge...
Coyote Settles the South
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820355412
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg,...
Neighborhood Hawks
A Year Following Wild Birds
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820354934
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
After reading J. A. Baker’s fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South...
Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820335926
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature.
Tolstoy and Tolstaya
A Portrait of a Life in Letters
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780776624716
Pub Date: May 2017
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Tolstoy and Tolstaya’s legacy is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Russian history and world literature, while their daily life has been recorded through their correspondence. This work presents the last 239 letters plus 11 hitherto unpublished letters between the spouses, painting a remarkable portrait of their life and times.
My Paddle to the Sea
Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780820344201
Pub Date: September 2012
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy, Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Through it all, paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded.
Elemental South
An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820326894
Pub Date: October 2004
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
A a gathering of works by some of the region’s best nature writers—people who can coax from words the mysteries of our place in the landscape and the human relationship to wildness. These works lure us deep into the southern landscape, away from the constructs of humanity and closer to a recognition of our inextricable ties to the earth.
Woods Stretched for Miles
New Nature Writing from the South
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CA$114.95
ISBN: 9780820352763
Pub Date: April 2017
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
The Woods Stretched for Miles gathers essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such...
Circling Home
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820333489
Pub Date: March 2009
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Lane’s explorations—within a one-mile radius of his home in South Carolina—intensify his bonds to family, friends, and colleagues as they sharpen his sense of place. By looking more deeply at what lies close to home, both the ordinary and the remarkable, Lane shows us how whole new worlds can open up.
Voice for Earth
American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780820332116
Pub Date: September 2008
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
A collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter, which was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.
Chattooga
Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820327754
Pub Date: September 2005
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Because of the film Deliverance, the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain’s Mississippi or maybe Conrad’s Congo. This is John Lane’s search for the real Chattooga, for the truths that reside somewhere in the river’s rapids, along its shores, or in its travelers’ hearts.
Woods Stretched for Miles
New Nature Writing from the South
Price:
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820320885
Pub Date: April 1999
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such well-known names as Wendell Berry and Rick Bass but also distinctive new voices, including Christopher Camuto, Susan Cerulean, and Eddy L. Harris.
Gullies of My People
An Excavation of Landscape and Family
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780820365442
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820356853
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820356242
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Coyote Settles the South
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820355412
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Neighborhood Hawks
A Year Following Wild Birds
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780820354934
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780820335926
Pub Date: March 2012
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Tolstoy and Tolstaya
A Portrait of a Life in Letters
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780776624716
Pub Date: May 2017
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
My Paddle to the Sea
Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780820344201
Pub Date: September 2012
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Elemental South
An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820326894
Pub Date: October 2004
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Woods Stretched for Miles
New Nature Writing from the South
CA$114.95
ISBN: 9780820352763
Pub Date: April 2017
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Circling Home
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820333489
Pub Date: March 2009
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Voice for Earth
American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780820332116
Pub Date: September 2008
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Chattooga
Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820327754
Pub Date: September 2005
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Woods Stretched for Miles
New Nature Writing from the South
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820320885
Pub Date: April 1999
Imprint: University of Georgia Press