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Product Description: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West...read more
Hardcover:
9780393089998 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 20, 2015, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Paperback:
9780393352375 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 14, 2016), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Product Description: Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book AwardWinner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southern Environment 2011Named a Top Book from the South 2011 by The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA San Francisco Chronicle Gift Book Recommendation for 2011A Southern Independent Booksellers BestsellerÂFor those interested in putting the Gulf crisis in perspective, there can be no better guide than this funny, often uncertain, frank, opinionated, always curious, informed and awestruck, accounting of how weâve gone wrong and could go right, a full-strength antidote to the Kryptonite of corporate greed and human ignorance...read more
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9781571313331 | Milkweed Editions, September 13, 2011, cover price $24.00
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9781571313379 | Reprint edition (Milkweed Editions, July 17, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book AwardWinner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southern Environment 2011Named a Top Book from the South 2011 by The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA San Francisco Chronicle Gift Book Recommendation for 2011A Southern Independent Booksellers BestsellerÂFor those interested in putting the Gulf crisis in perspective, there can be no better guide than this funny, often uncertain, frank, opinionated, always curious, informed and awestruck, accounting of how weâve gone wrong and could go right, a full-strength antidote to the Kryptonite of corporate greed and human ignorance.
Product Description: In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Bostonâs Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess...read more
Paperback:
9781571313249 | Milkweed Editions, July 12, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Bostonâs Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism.
Product Description: A Book Sense Notable Title"As Gessner pursues [the ospreys] down the Eastern Seaboard and even into Cuba with a BBC documentary team at his heels, a lively tale of fish-eating raptors, broken embargoes and a nail-biting race to the finish line ensues ...read more
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9780807085783 | Beacon Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for years, David Gessner impulsively decided to follow the birds on their annual migration.
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9780807085790 | Beacon Pr, April 15, 2008, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A Book Sense Notable Title"As Gessner pursues [the ospreys] down the Eastern Seaboard and even into Cuba with a BBC documentary team at his heels, a lively tale of fish-eating raptors, broken embargoes and a nail-biting race to the finish line ensues .
Hardcover:
9780807085684 | Beacon Pr, September 7, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author recalls lessons he learned from nature writer John Hay, a man who has lived on the same piece of land for sixty years, offering a moving celebration of Nature as the path to finding our true identities.
Product Description: David Gessnerâs Return of the Osprey is "among the classics of American nature writing," said the Boston Globe. So why does this critically acclaimed nature writer now declare himself to be "sick of nature"? In diverse, diverting, and frequently hilarious essays, Gessner wrestles with father figures both biological and literary, reflects on the pleasures and absurdities of the writing life, explores the significance of place for both his work and his sense of well-being, and rails at the confines of the nature genre even as he continues to find fresh inspiration for his writing in the natural world...read more
Hardcover:
9781584653585 | Dartmouth College, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: David Gessner's Return of the Osprey is "among the classics of American nature writing," said the Boston Globe.
Paperback:
9781584654643 | Dartmouth College, July 1, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: David Gessnerâs Return of the Osprey is "among the classics of American nature writing," said the Boston Globe.
The author of A Wild, Rank Place focuses on the osprey, capturing their magnificent beauty while chronicling their return on the east coast after a two decades absence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9781565122543 | Algonquin Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the osprey, capturing their magnificent beauty while chronicling their return on the East Coast after two decades of absence.
Paperback:
9780345450166 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of A Wild, Rank Place focuses on the osprey, capturing their magnificent beauty while chronicling their return on the east coast after a two decades absence.
Product Description: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations. Among Thoreau's literary progeny is David Gessner, but this book goes far beyond the naturalist's focus on the transcendent beauty of the landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780874518023 | Univ Pr of New England, March 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations.
Paperback:
9780874518030 | Univ Pr of New England, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations.
Product Description: David Gessner first moved to Colorado in the wake of a bout with cancer. In Under the Devil's Thumb, this young New Englander takes readers on a joyous quest to discover the mysteries of the western landscape and the landscape of the soul as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780816519231 | Univ of Arizona Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: David Gessner first moved to Colorado in the wake of a bout with cancer.
Paperback:
9780816519248 | Univ of Arizona Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: David Gessner first moved to Colorado in the wake of a bout with cancer.
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