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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Over a year has passed since Bay Point Preparatory High School found themselves countless light years away in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Against all odds, they've built their own civilization and made contact with other humans who have inhabited the planet for many years prior. But the crew finds themselves divided, choosing sides in a war that has been raging for hundreds of years"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"On a brisk fall day in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School vanished without a trace. Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Where are they? Why are they there? The answers will prove stranger than anyone could possibly imagine."--
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"The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of Alaska. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard, ' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vi, ; 20 cm
Description
Some of the most visited national parks in the country have a dark side. Aside from crowds of hikers, campers, and general tourists, there's a dark side to many that can be found in the great states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. From strange disappearances, grisly murders and bone-chilling paranormal hauntings and ghost sightings; these pristine locales have a lot more to offer than just serene hiking trails or camping. In this third installment...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In this invigorating mix of memoir, natural history, and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to illuminate our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes...
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Madrona project volume 2, no. 2 (Jan. 2022)
Pub. Date
January 2022.
Physical Desc
[xiii], 168 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"The third issue of The Madrona Project attempts to demonstrate ways in which human communities collaborate with natural forces. There are five sections. The first is a tribute to the founders of Empty Bowl which includes work by Mike O'Connor, Tom Jay, Carolyn Servid, Jerry Gorsline, Freeman House, and Finn Wilcox. The other sections comprise work around the themes of the wild, rural wild, urban wild and wilderness itself. Among the seventy-three...
131) Cape Rage
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Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in the latest novel of the series the New York Times calls, "Dynamite." The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
133) Feral youth
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Join our intrepid tour guides (a Sasquatch and a bald eagle) as they introduce us to the visonaries, artists, and lovers of the American landscape who fought against corruption and self-interest to carve out and protect these epic places for future generations. It's the story of the ongoing battle to ensure the most beautiful spaces in the world are not gated up or destroyed, but preserved and accessible to all! See for yourself how the idea of national...
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