Is it even possible to recreate a loving and caring family in a totally separate State where one has never been before? In Kentucky Tails a book that is for the young at heart, Penny journeys to a faraway land where she will never see her family again.<br><br>Penny enjoys the view of The Grand Canyon where she hailed from with a very handsome and generous man. She finds herself zipped closed in his back pack and is driven to Bowling ...
Jory Sherman's first book for Gallivant Press, The Hills of Eden, is a deeply personal look at the green highlands of Missouri and Arkansas. His work could easily be described as a travel book. He does lead the reader down beautiful and poignant mountain highways and long-forgotten back roads to places that reflect the timeless legacy and unforgettable characters of the Ozarks. <br><br>As he has written: "All the dir ...
Average People, Extraordinary Trail is written for anyone that has an interest in the Appalachian Trail (A.T.), or hiking in general. You don't have to be an experienced hiker, or professional outdoorsman, to enjoy a day, or a year, on the A.T.<br><br>Enjoy a "desk hike" while reading the author's daily journal entries from his 2009 A.T. thru-hike. Prepare for your own hike, or just learn a little ab ...
Nehalem explores the impact of illegal international fishing on a community where the ocean provides practical and spiritual meaning for local lives and relationships. Surfers and fishermen from a small Oregon harbor town respond to the threat of salmon extinction, when miles of deadly drift nets begin harvesting their coastal waters.<br><br>This exciting drama unfolds at a time when national media had not yet reported the devastatin ...
This is an extraordinary and powerful book, the voice of Earth giving us a deep and expansive view of why we are here at this time our purpose, and what she needs from us, humankind, to save her life and ours as well.<br><br> Fascinating, riveting and profound information never heard before, it is important for us to read this and remember our true association and agreements with her, made long ago.<br><br> If we do not r ...
In everyone's heart, lies a small light waiting to ignite. It is the Lotus light, a trigger waiting, as in "Sleeping Beauty", for its time to awaken. <br><br>This little book begins the journey for Zaglf, bored and tired of his control over the "little ones" of his kingdom Sweetmoor, a place that used to be gentle and happy, but now is living in darkness of his creation. One night the old o ...
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape – and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through ...
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea roads, he traces the arteries through which our nation's lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Moffat's travels along th ...
For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter – a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock exquisitely camouflaged on her nest – and every day, on his return home, he records his thoughts in a journal. Drawing on this lifetime of close ...
