In Django: A Memoir," Peter Comley, one of Africa’s legendary safari guides, discovers an unexpected kindred spirit in a small dog who shares his zest for adventure. Peter, ever drawn to the wildest paths, finds a perfect companion in Django, a fearless pup always ready for the next journey.Named after a Wild West hero, Django's daring spirit emerged at just six weeks old when he taught the local pit bull not to mess with him. Escaping a life of pampered luxury, Django embraced a l...

Mud Verses Stars by Peter Comley is a profound collection of poetry that explores the delicate balance between the raw earth and the vast universe. With a unique blend of earthy wisdom and a deep connection to the natural world, Comley delves into themes of conservation, human existence, and the beauty found in the smallest moments. Each verse offers a glimpse into the complexities of life, from the mud beneath our feet to the stars above us, inviting readers to reflect on their place in t...

1980s Maun is reminiscent of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick’s 1880s Barberton, and Django is no less of a character than the legendary Jock of the Bushveld. Named for the hero in a spaghetti western, and oblivious to his diminutive statue, Django, a Jack Russell cross, squares up to the challenges life as a safari guide’s dog throws at him. As a pup he puts the ferocious Pitbull terrier Buford firmly in his place; the only other animal to have done so was a hyena.Django’s baptism to life in...

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat.I...

Wireless internet arrives from a nearby town/hotel.Email is both the mailbox and the phone.The laptop internet is the TV and the movie theater.We can use a PO box for snail mail.No taxes, no rent, no mortgage.The view is superb.The motorcycle idles,Which is really nothing moreThan a soft purr,As one of my long-lifeLaptop batteries charges up,Waiting to be swapped with the other,Soon to be a dying one.

Long gone are the days of drinking naturally pure water from flowing rivers and streams--or even your tap. Today it is becoming common practice to use bottled or filtered water. How did we arrive at such a state, and what can we do about it?Pollution, ever-increasing population, industrial pressures, rainforest destruction, and ground water waste have all led to the deterioration of water quality, yet the underlying problem--as Marks shows in his wide-ranging, thoughtful book--is t...

In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction.With reference to the consequences of our poorly considered and self-centered environmental practices-global warming, ozone degradation, deforestation-McKibben combines modern science and time...

An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including g...

Water and sanitation problems have reached boiling point; children are dying unnecessarily at the rate of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day. We forget that the water cycle and life cycle are one. Only a fool tests the depth of water with both feet. What makes the desert beautiful is that it somewhere hides a well. As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict over water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all o...

The Earth is a living organism and if its situation continues to deteriorate, it will try to purify itself with devastating natural disasters. The year 2012 will be the last opportunity for the Earth's peoples to divert the crisis into hope.You know changes are coming, but do you really know why?Is it as simple as the fact that we have unbalanced the Earth with our behaviour? Or are there deeper reasons?

Earth Journal was written by the author in the summer of 1972 at age 21. Only a few ending pages, a few updates and corrections; the biography of Sir Thomas More; including the images, were added in May 2010. This non-fiction account is both a commentary on planet earth; a brief history of its age; its place in the solar system as being unique by possessing life; and a brief account of the first "Earth Day," as it happened from my 1970 perspective as a college freshman. The book is also a ...

The God Gap takes you on a journey from the scientific teachings of Charles Darwin, David Attenborough, and James Lovelock; Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking; the lessons of Moses, Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad; the philosophical insights of Socrates, Carl Jung, and Confucious, to present-day spiritual teachers to answer the perennial question, 'Does God Exist?'In accessible language, The God Gap ...