A caretaker team of spaceworkers have the job of mothballing and maintaining aging infrastructure on Mars. Being adventurous types goes with the territory. Despite their remote, lonely planetary deployment, they yearn for direct sensory contact with the real world of Mars, while earning, of course, enough money on the side to keep their adventure going. The prize becomes the idea of scaling the largest volcano anywhere, Olympus Mons. Not so simple, of course. Circumstances change, especial...

In 2018 Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, quietly marked its 125th anniversary. The author has been exploring the Park for almost sixty of those years by canoe, camping and hiking.His most recent visit in the autumn of 2018, provided time for reflection, and inspired this poem sequence. It is first in a series, set within the Park. Volume 2 is, **Into The Interior,**Volume 3 is, Shanty Runes, (forthcoming).For the duration of Algonquin's milestone anniversar...

The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto. Fed by the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Rouge river system has, over generations of time, cut its identity into the land, shaping the habitat for a multitude of lifeforms, many of which are now either threatened or gone.Author James E. Garratt, a seasoned environmentalist, ...

In Journeys Into Algonquin Park, Garratt explores interior and exterior landscapes that appear to exist outside the boundaries of space and time.Contains four poem cycles.and photos by the author, all pertaining to explorations within Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.Print version is currently available at the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre Bookstore, km 43, Hwy 60.

NATURE RESERVE ON THE CITY'S EDGE" In this book James E Garratt has written a love story, a tone poem... It's astonishing to think that something this relatively untouched still exists in the Anthropocene Age. But it's not in a fairy tale book, it's in Vaughan [Ontario, Canada]. Garratt writes knowledgeably and with as much sensitivity about black walnut trees as stoneflies... takes us inside the delicious natural world and eloquently makes the case for its protection... it is ...

Poem sequence based on a 1980's solo canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Although the city itself is left behind, some things cannot be evaded, only seen from new perspectives.This is Volume 2 in my Algonquin Park Series, of which Poem To Algonquin Park is Volume 1, and which Shanty Runes (forthcoming) is Volume 3.Also available as chapbook - forest-sustainable paper and sewn with vintage Irish thread.

Poem sequence inspired by the old-time logging era, which extended from 1893 into the 1970's, in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Today, scattered ruins tell of that past. Also, too, a kind of haunting music that is heard by those who visit the Park, and listen carefully.

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a...

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of the American West landscape and building a home there by Annie Proulx, winner of a PEN/Faulker Award, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award and author of the short story “Brokeback Mountain.”“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she...

Common Birds of North America is an excellent resource for identifying the birds you see around your home yard or when you're travelling. One page per bird provides a good and simple overview to identify the birds.This is a perfect book to have on your smartphone or tablet to look oup a bird you're curious about. Or get the paperback to have around for quick reference.Your book will probably get all dog eared from use.It makes a great gift for Chris...

For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment.

Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the remainder in the United States), the prairies occupy the heartland of the co...