In this fascinating family memoir, Jane Walker reveals the remarkable life and achievements of her father, Russell Wollen, a forgotten pioneer whose impact on the Kenyancoffee industry influenced the development of a nation.From a grass hut to global negotiating tables, interwoven with the family's narrative of love, drama and sacrifice, this absorbing tale is a poignant window into Kenya's colonialpast. Wollen's resilience, determination and vision was instrumental in...

Creek Indians inhabited land that was to become Telfair County. The early population was made up of settlers of Scottish descent. They had to produce almost everything they used, from food to equipment. Named for Edward Telfair, a two-term governor of Georgia, the county was formed in 1807 from a portion of Wilkinson County. Gradually, several counties were formed from parts of Telfair. Since 1870, Telfair County has kept its current boundaries. The original county seat was located in Jack...

Kiwi adventurer Mary Jane Walker's presents her first three books, A Maverick Traveller, A Maverick New Zealand Way and A Maverick Cuban Way in a single anthology.A Maverick Traveller opens with an account of an epic journey across half the world on a Chinese Junk. Mary Jane then goes on to describe her early life and adventures, including a spell as a city councillor in Auckland, New Zealand.A Maverick New Zealand Way is an award finalis...

A celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent mural by the artist and author.Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, Jane Kim's The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail...

FINALIST IN THE TRAVEL CATEGORY, INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, 2018.A Maverick New Zealand Way is a Maverick writing about her own country. After her mother died, Mary Jane walked all New Zealand for four years. She will make you feel like you have already arrived. And perhaps even that you have known her and her country for years.Mary Jane shares her love of environmental conservation and volunteering, trekking and adventure. She suggests sustainable...

The first in Mary Jane Walker's series of worldwide travel adventures.At twenty, Mary Jane left New Zealand for five years. A Maverick Traveller begins with an epic voyage on a Chinese junk named La Dame de Canton, and then goes on to describe her later adventures worldwide.By the time she sat down to write her books Mary Jane had travelled the world, from the Arctic Circle to working as a park ranger on an uninhabited island administered ...

This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing others internationally. With famines, vast wildfires, droughts, and record heatwaves uprooting human settlements internationally, research on migration in the face of emerging risks is all the more urgent. As Balsari, Dresser, & Leaning p...

First published in February 2021, The Sensational South Island is the companion volume to The Neglected North Island: New Zealand's other half, judged 'Best Antipodean Cultural Travel Book 2021' by Lux Life magazine, lux-review.com. Both books expand on and update A Maverick New Zealand Way, which was a finalist in Travel at the International Book Awards, 2018. Mary Jane was born in New Zealand and constantly finds more to explore in her native land!...

'Written with such understanding and power it takes your breath away' - JEREMY VINEDISCOVER THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SENSITIVITYHave you even been told you are being 'too sensitive'? That you should develop a thicker skin? Society tells us that it's bad to be too soft, or feel too much. But is it?Hannah Jane Walker, a highly sensitive person, has spent years researching sensitivity. Drawing on a wide range of experts, ideas and...

Five women came together over fifteen years ago to support each other.Writing about their experiences, insights, thoughts, and observations about life helped them to release their pain, and to grow, and to appreciate life and this beautiful earth more abundantly.By shareing their writings within the group, they came alive by listening and applying the lessons that surfaced.Written by the five women, WHAT DO YOU THINK? is a variety of stories, experiences, insights, thoughts, and ob...

Never planning anything more than two weeks ahead, Mary Jane travels through Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland and the Orkneys, Shetlands and Inner Hebrides.She learns that the Vikings were the first Europeans to land in the Americas (not Columbus); ate seal meat dished up by her Inuit hosts in Ilulissat; and went dogsledding overnight. She discovered why Greenland got called green and went up the coast by ship. And was accused by some other visitors of bein...

A Maverick Cuban Way is a flowing narrative of Cuba after the Castros.In her Maverick fashion, Mary Jane went to Cuba on a whim. A solo traveller, she met someone who suggested a casa run by a woman named Mikalena. Mary Jane travelled around the Island on local buses.She went to the Bay of Pigs museum and discovered that American-backed rebels had landed in a crocodile swamp. No one told her the Cuban Flag was American in origin.Her most memorable e...