Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through the harsh environment of Arizona, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there, including diamondback rattlesnakes, bats, and horned lizards.
Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through the harsh environment of Alaska, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there, including moose, sea otters, black bears, and giant Pacific octopus.
Indian removal and the making of the national parks
Spence, Mark David
1999
Examines the origins of America's national parks, focusing on the policies of Indian removal that were developed as a result of the late nineteenth-century idealization of uninhabited wilderness that led to the establishment of nature preserves.
A white boy transplanted from Chicago to the Arctic tundra of Alaska finds himself struggling to adapt to his new home, where he must learn to hunt, fish, and live off the land, separated from the constant call of consumer culture.
Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
Cutuk Hawcly is growing up in rural Alaska in an Inupiaq village and after his brother and sister leave the traditional ways for life in the city, Cutuk wonders if he should too.
