This selection of works by naturalist, hunter, conservation activist, and outdoors journalist Kevin Van Tighem will both inspire and provoke, because it offers an unflinching challenge to cherished myths and conventional wisdom in a...
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- Auteur:Van Tighem, KevinSommaire:
- Auteur:Pardo, ThierrySommaire:
Après Petite géographie de la fuite, Thierry Pardo poursuit inlassablement sa recherche des espaces de liberté. Cette fois, il marche sur les pas du philosophe naturaliste Henry David Thoreau et met notre époque au défi d'une...
- Auteur:Thoreau, Henry DavidSommaire:
This essay was presented as a lecture by Thoreau in his later years, but only published after his death. It's best known for its quote "In wildness is the preservation of the world", which has become a rallying cry of the...
- Auteur:Boyden, JosephSommaire:
"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme environments. Introduced by award-winning...
- Auteur:Macdonald, HelenSommaire:
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a...
- Auteur:Attenborough, DavidSommaire:
La véritable tragédie de notre époque se déroule sous nos yeux, à l'échelle de la planète tout entière : la disparition de notre milieu naturel. Notre mode de vie actuel précipite la biodiversité vers un déclin certain....
- Auteur:Kolbert, ElizabethSommaire:
That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live...
- Auteur:McIntire, GabrielleSommaire:
Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous...
- Auteur:Lee, Jessica J.Sommaire:
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan... - Auteur:Gordon, ArielSommaire:
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg’s Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to...
- Auteur:Phillips, ElizabethSommaire:
Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
- Auteur:Brown, TomSommaire:
As a child he was taught to respect nature by an Apache elder he called Grandfather, now as a bestselling author and master tracker Tom Brown, Jr., shares his secrets for nurturing and saving our planet. Tom Brown, Jr., is America's...
- Auteur:Fombelle, Timothée deSommaire:
Se cachant au creux des écorces, courant parmi les branches, épuisé, les pieds en sang, Tobie fuit, traqué par les siens... Tobie Lolness ne mesure pas plus d'un millimètre et demi. Son peuple habite le grand chêne depuis la nuit des...
- Auteur:Ketcham, ChristopherSommaire:
A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West-and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of...
- Auteur:King-Campbell, SharonSommaire:
Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Isrange across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a...
- Auteur:Ward, Meghan J.Sommaire:
Vibrant, whimsical illustrations accompany this thoughtful poem, which will quickly become a favourite for both parents and children to read together. It's a beautiful summer day and Geneva's parents have something special in mind: a...
- Auteur:Penner, LyndonSommaire:
Reverence takes on a new meaning in this original memoir of an avid gardener walking the Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing—to varying degrees—their spirit,...
- Auteur:Wallace-Wells, DavidSommaire:
"The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety...
- Auteur:Irie, KevinSommaire:
I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawkInspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Visionpresents a...
- Auteur:Wohlleben, PeterSommaire:
The final book in the Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben Nature is full of surprises-deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the...
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