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  • Journey in Place: A Field Guide to Belonging

    by Janisse Ray ...
    Why not work on building the deepest relationship of your life?That relationship is with your place.◆◆◆Maybe you feel out of place. Ungrounded. New to the suburbs, lost in the city, lonely in the rural.Maybe you want to get outside more. Learn the names of birds.Maybe you're already in love with your place and you want to listen to trees. Hear the stars singing.Whatever your situation, this book ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Craft & Current: A Manual for Magical Writing

    by Janisse Ray ...
    This manual is a transformative guide into the heart of writing. In CRAFT & CURRENT, acclaimed author Janisse Ray unveils the twin pillars essential for every aspiring writer: mastering the craft and tapping into currents of magic.Drawing from years of experience, Ray expertly navigates the intricacies of the writing craft, offering practical advice and techniques to hone writing skills. From ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Card Quilt

    The Ecology of Home

    by Janisse Ray ...
    This account of rediscovering her Georgia home and its landscapes is "another must-read book" by the author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood ( Tulsa World).Seventeen years after she'd left "for good," Janisse Ray pointed her truck away from Montana and back to the small southern town where she was born. Wild Card Quilt is the story, by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and ambitious, of the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Spectacle

    Seeking Wonders in a World beyond Humans

    by Janisse Ray ...
    Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, published by Milkweed was a New York Times Notable and has sold nearly 200,000 copies. Also won American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Awards, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Awards, and Eisenberg AwardEssays are explorations on what it means to travel into the wild as a womanFocus on eco-travel which is a hot topic; ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

    by Janisse Ray ...
    From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing" ( New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seed Underground

    A Growing Revolution to Save Food

    by Janisse Ray ...
    There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings.At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options including those for local, sustainable, and organic food-seem limitless. And yet, our food supply is profoundly at risk. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

    by Janisse Ray ...
    Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a memoir that weaves the story of one woman's coming of age with the longleaf pine flatwoods of the southeastern U.S.Born and raised in a junkyard on the coastal plain of southern Georgia, author Janisse Ray renders her hardscrabble childhood—marked by poverty, a deeply religious family, and a father struggling to overcome mental illness—with honesty and lyricism ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drifting into Darien

    A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

    by Janisse Ray ...
    Series Book 77 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father’s construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That first baptism began a lifelong relationship with a stunning and powerful river that almost nobody knows.The Altamaha rises dark and mysterious in southeast Georgia. It is deep and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • A Voice for Earth

    American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter

    A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle," ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

    The World as Home

    by Janisse Ray ...
    Narrated by Janisse Ray ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solastalgia

    An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

    Series series Ecologia
    "One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

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