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 ...

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, ...

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.

In this "tour de force of modern nature writing," a passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal—by living like them ( The Guardian, UK).In Being a Beast, Charles Foster tests the limits of our ability to walk in another's footsteps. He lives alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He catches fish in his ...

In Illumination in the Flatwoods, Joe Hutto unveiled the secret lives of wild turkeys to great critical acclaim, which resulted in the Emmy Awardwinning PSB documentary My Life as a Turkey. Now Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Rockies for almost seven years.Due to the intense curiosity of one groundbreaking deer, and the resulting introduction to an entire herd, Joe Hutto has been allowed ...

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Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace.In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that burns with magnificent beauty, this raw and powerful collection is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growt...

First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot Sound. Pitt-Brooke takes the reader on 12 journeys, one for each month of the year. Each journey covers the outstanding natural event of that season, such as whale-watching in April, shorebird migration in May, and the salmon spawn in October.

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