environmental conditions

Chronicles the author's search for hopeful signs that it is possible to save the environment, following his travels from his Adirondack home to the Brazilian city of Curitiba, to Kerala, a state in Southern India--places where people are living less earth-damaging lives.

Traces the events surrounding a commando-style arson which destroyed and damaged more than $12 million worth of buildings and equipment at the Vail, Colorado ski resort on October 19, 1998, and speculates as to who could have been responsible for starting the fire.

Provides a comprehensive history of the Hudson River and its influence on the politics, economics, and social aspects of America. Includes illustrations.

The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

Contains reproductions and original photographs in which Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe have attempted to re-create images taken in Yosemite National Park by Ansel Adams, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and other legendary photographers between sixty and 140 years earlier, and includes three essays that consider the iconic status of Yosemite, how the park was defined by its first visitors, and how it has changed.

Examines the effects of technology and urban growth on the animals, plants, and people who live at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Tells the story of Randy Borman, the son of American missionaries who chose to stay and make his life with the Cofan people who live in the jungles of Ecuador, and is now, as their leader, spearheading the fight to keep oil companies from invading and destroying the rainforest.

Al Cambronne ventures with botanists, ecologists, frustrated farmers and foresters, overworked body-shop owners, camoclad hunters, and humble deer enthusiasts. Along the way he gives readers an insider's tour of America's deer-industrial complex--and makes a convincing case that yes, there really is such a thing. Cambronne examines our history with whitetails, pinpoints where our ecological problems began, and asks tough questions about what it will take to restore the balance we've disrupted.

"A thoughtful recounting of one woman?s travels in the post-Cold War American West . . . Meloy?s wanderings take her to the back roads of the desert Southwest, to hidden canyons where Navajo witchcraft and toxic waste reign side by side, and to little towns where uranium miners wait for cancer to claim them. . . . Meloy has not only rediscovered her connection to the badlands?she?s also made a fine book in the bargain." -- Kirkus Reviews.