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 ...

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

Queen Isabella, 1295-1358, wife of King Edward 11, as seen through her own eyes. A strong, intelligent, and beautiful woman, she suffers many humiliations because of her husband’s homosexuality. For many years she bravely tolerates this as best she can until her position becomes utterly intolerable. At that point, having returned to France, the land of her birth, she begins an affair with the exiled knight, Sir Roger Mortimer. Together, they take a huge gamble by invading England, intent o...

This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics changed over time and across cultures, and are the familiar tools we use in dealing with them fit for purpose? This book overhauls our understanding of how these fields interact, offering a rigorous reappraisal of key concepts such as power, p...

Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing model...

What do you know about engines, wagons and animals in China, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Paraguay?Some of you may never have been to these countries so we want to show you some trains and people with their animals who live and work there.Inside our new book you can see photos of trains and try to do the quiz questions. You will be able to check the places on the map.

From Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien . . .To those around her she was a loyal subject.In her heart she was a traitor.1399: England’s crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne.For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King – her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can...

In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel, Children of England, Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful monarchs, Elizabeth I.This book begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign. Elizabeth is portrayed as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal a...