wilderness areas

Presents over one hundred black-and-white photographs commissioned from Ansel Adams by the U.S. government in 1941 that document the American wilderness, complemented by exerpts from the writings of naturalist John Muir.

Explores eleven of the world's most remote and exotic locations with text and photographs.

While visiting her hippie godmother in rural Canada, New Jersey girl Jenna gets a rude awakening about her ideas of Green Teen activism, vegetarianism, and the wilderness after an encounter with a moose, a Goth, and a hostile boy named Reeve. She gets help from a survival guide but that doesn't help her navigate her heart.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.

After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, sixteen-year-old Brian finds that he can't seem to fit into "civilization" but must return to the place where he feels he really belongs.

American environmentalist writer Edward Abbey presents essays about his travels to Australia's outback, a Mexican desert island, and several places in the American West, as well as personal memoirs and commentaries on American lifestyles.

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.

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.

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.