This collection brings together 46 stories, written by women and organized around 12 themes that illustrate our connection to the outdoor world. The diverse stories record and celebrate the wilderness experience, and range from lyrical meditations to bracing adventure travel tales. The authors, including E. Annie Proulx, Jessica Maxwell, Lorian Hemingway, Ann Linnea, Jean Gould, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Judith McDaniel and Pam Houston, honour the wonder and beauty of nature and encourage other women to do the same.
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Wilderness offers our jaded age a way to test our soft and hard spots. The 34 writers in Gifts of the Wild touch down in Patagonia and Nepal and skip across vast expanses of America. Visiting college professor Pam Houston dips a toe into freezing waters and the bonds between men by joining a group of fly-fishing male poets on their after-midnight jaunts. Susana Levin's sharply honed "Night Skates" follows a loose-knit clan of deranged urban guerrillas who cruise the huffing rise and stomach-churning drops of San Francisco's streets on in-line skates at night. Spilling down the long, dizzy ski jump of Golden Gate Avenue, says Levin, "I was having the kind of rush you only get when you're doing something really fun, really stupid and illegal." Whether read in an armchair or stuffed into a backpack, this lively collection calls to the wild in all of us. --Francesca Coltrera
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This book contains selections of women's adventures in the wilderness divided into 12 sections, each of which is described by trees, such as "Ash: Gift of Joy" and "Ivy: Gift of Solace." All the selections are taken from the "Adventura" book series. The 37 authors include Lucy Jane Bledsoe, the editor of several anthologies such as Gay Travels: A Literary Companion (Whereabouts, 1998), and Jessica Maxwell, a regular contributor to Esquire and Forbes and the author of two books of travel tales. Selections describe a canoe trip with Girl Scouts, surfing with dolphins, and night skating in San Francisco. The writing is apt and beautiful, describing adventures in nature from many viewpoints. Buy for all libraries.AAlison Hopkins, Queens Borough P.L., Jamaica, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In 1925, Lady Clara Coulton Rogers Vyvyan and her friend Gwen Dorian Smith left the comforts of home and hearth in England to embark on a paddling trip on rivers leading from the Arctic Ocean into the Yukon basin of Alaska. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ernestine Bayer, Grand Canyon, Lake Superior, Glen Canyon Dam, United States, Lake Powell, Mount Elijah, San Francisco, Trapper's Rock, Admiralty Island, Eagles Mere, Holland Lake, New Hampshire, Colorado River, Melanie Cove, Nature World, New England, North Carolina, Vancouver Bay, East Ridge, Grace's Run, Greg Brown, Lake Michigan, Legs Almighty, Native Americans New!
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In 1925, Lady Clara Coulton Rogers Vyvyan and her friend Gwen Dorian Smith left the comforts of home and hearth in England to embark on a paddling trip on rivers leading from the Arctic Ocean into the Yukon basin of Alaska. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ernestine Bayer, Grand Canyon, Lake Superior, Glen Canyon Dam, United States, Lake Powell, Mount Elijah, San Francisco, Trapper's Rock, Admiralty Island, Eagles Mere, Holland Lake, New Hampshire, Colorado River, Melanie Cove, Nature World, New England, North Carolina, Vancouver Bay, East Ridge, Grace's Run, Greg Brown, Lake Michigan, Legs Almighty, Native Americans New!
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- Another Wilderness: Notes from the New Outdoorswoman (Adventura Books) by Susan Fox Rogers on 4 pages
- A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women by Holly Morris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Solo: On Her Own Adventure by Susan Fox Rogers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Leading Out: Mountaineering Stories of Adventurous Women by Rachel Da Silva in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood by Flor Fernandez Barrios in Back Matter
- Dutiful Daughters: Caring for Our Parents As They Grow Old by Jean Gould in Back Matter
- Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy by Lene Gammelgaard in Front Matter
- Far from Home: Father-Daughter Travel Adventures by Wendy Knight in Back Matter
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