Author: © George Mercer Publication Date: June 17, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Prologue The willows lashed at his face as Charlie struggled through the snow, weighed down by the ice quickly encasing his tattered snow boots. Despite the freezing temperature, a steady stream […]
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Author: © Cate Dunn Published: November 28, 2017 Ordering: Amazon, Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website, Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. –William Shakespeare As […]
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Authors: © Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Free e-book available from Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Where Journeys Begin (Introduction) Some believe the natural world is our real home. The place where we came from. Could […]
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Title: Our National Parks Author: John Muir Publication: In the public domain. Originally: “In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, […]
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Author: © Ned Tillman Publication Date: 2014 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Amazon Author Page, Author Website, Facebook, LinkedIn Prologue to Saving the Places we Love First Loss The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. — Edward Abbey Good Endeavor Farm, 1962 — I woke […]
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Author: © Jessica Groenendijk Publication Date: November 21, 2015 Publication: Words from the Wild Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Back to the Dragonfly Library In late 2007, my husband and I and our two kids left our home in North Luangwa National Park, Zambia, and set off on a six-month […]
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