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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007..
Language
English
Description
With never-before-seen illustrations and intimate detail, Lear goes beyond the perennial fascination with Beatrix Potter as a writer and illustrator of children's books, and delves deeply into the life of a most unusual and gifted woman. One 8-page b&w insert. Two 8-page color inserts.
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Faith of Cranes is Lentfer's quiet, lyrical memoir of his home near Glacier Bay, where he reveals a family's simple acts--planting potatoes, gathering berries, hunting deer--and a close and eccentric Alaskan community. He shows us how several thousand birds, and one little girl, teach a new father there is no future imaginable that does not leave room for compassion and grace."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir--iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher--meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
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