Search Results: Narratives/Essays/Prose from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Promotory Press, 1986. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Galen Rowell (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped (possibly by publisher); w/light edge wear, & faint staining to upper back edge. Trace waffling to upper text edges of the latter portion of the volume (humidity?). A photo essay of Alaska combining stunning photographs by Galen Rowell and selected narratives from Coming Into The Country by John McPhee; the prose excerpts were chosen by Rowell. This unique arrangement between a gifted photographer and gifted writer, both well acquainted with Alaska, makes for a rich book.

Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith/Gibbs Smith, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/a whisper of edge wear. First published 1915; this a reproduction of the original edition w/a new introduction by Richard F. Fleck. Memoir of Samual Hall Young (1847 - 1927) exploring Alaskan wilderness with his good friend John Muir (1838 - 1914). Book written a year after Muir's death, describes two journeys (1879, and 1880) they took together. An excellent companion volume to Muir's own memoirs of Travels in Alaska (1916).

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Soft cover/NF w/light rubs to all leading edges. Annual volume devoted to contemporary American nature writings. The anthology embraces a variety of literary styles (fiction, poetry and verse, journals, prose narratives, & feature articles) presented in alternating male and female voices. Biographical sketches of authors to rear.

Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing, 1967. Volume IV, No 2, May, 1967 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/NF; sound w/light edge wear & surface rubs (primarily to back. Cover Art: "The Colorado River at Granite Falls, Grand Canyon", photograph, Philip Hyde. Quarterley publication. This May 1967 Issue features a special review of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Rivers with essays from eminent and outstanding naturalists: Joseph Wood Krutch, Robert C. Euler, Rober A. Weinstein & Robert Olmstead, Francoise Leydet, and Daniel B. Luten. Other articles include a history of Mormon Colonies of Northern Mexico by Karl Young, and, "History, Myth, & the Western Writer" by Wallace Stegner.

Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999. Complimentary Copy . Soft cover. Collectible - Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW/Complimentary Copy issued to colleges/universites. Textbook. Literary criticism. Anthology of 110 essays, interviews, reviews, stories, poems and drama representing key issues in the American of life. Designed to stimulate critical thinking and creative writing, and recognition of the power of the written word be it to record and comment on diverse subjects of race, role models, identity, shared historty, violence, the media, and what one envisions for the future.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Ansel Adams (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace edge wear. Monograph. A visit to some forty national parks and monuments illustrated with legendary photographs of Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984). Visual splendor captured in time accompanied excerpts from his letters, speeches, and writings, some never before published, addressing critical issues facing the park system. A bringing together of eye and mind of an artist and environmental extraordinaire.

New York, NY: E P Dutton, 1982. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Eliot Porter (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. White linen boards/NF w/trace edge wear. DJ/NF w/light edge wear. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text edge. Map to endpapers. Conservationist and nature photographer Eliot Furness Porter (1901 - 1990) was 73 years-old when the Polar Information Service of the Nat'l Science Foundation invited him to visit and photograph Antartica. Illustrated with 156 maps and color plates, the magic of Antartica is brought to life through the magic of Porter --- keen of mind and clear of eye. 10 chapters: I, The Voyage South; II, Palmer Station & the Islands; III, Misfortune at Deception Island; IV, McMurdo Sound; V, The Dry Valleys; VI, Exploring the Ice; VII, To the South Pole; VIII, Aboard the Icebreaker Glacier; IX, Lay Days at Palmer Station; and X, Aboard The Hero.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1954. Volume XXX (30), No 5, May 1954 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing trace margin discoloration. Stapled softcover/Fine. COVER ART: "Action in the Bullring in Nogales, Sonora", Ray Manley. May 1954 issued during the Governorship of Howard Pyle. 40 pgs, 5 essays: 1, Powerboats on the Colorado (Allan C. Reed); 2, Fiesta in Nogales (photos by Western Ways & Ray Manley); 3, Folk Songs on the Colorado (Katie Lee; Tad Nichols, photos); 4, Tidal Bore (Mose & Estelle Daniels); and 5, Fish Fry on the Black (Allen C. Reed).

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1954. First Edition, Vol 30, No 6, June 1954 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Text/New, showing trace margin discoloration. Stapled softcover/Fine. COVER ART: "In the Kaibab", photo, Josef Muench. This June 1954 issue was published during Governor Howard Pyle's tenure. 40pgs: 1, Adventure in Nakai Canyon: Hosting Iowa Boy Scouts (Rod Gelatt); 2, Summer (Josef Muench; A.A. Berluti); 3, Arizona Grizzlies (Gaston Burridge); 4, Arizona Water Finders (Gaston Burridge); 5, The Green Roof of the Kaibab (Joyce Rockwood Muench; Josef Muench, photos); 6, Land of Beginning Again (Dama Langley); and 7, Evening Skies.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1954. Volume XXX (30), Number 12, December 195 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. COVER ART: "Silent Night - Holy Night"; a Cowboy's Christmas, Allen C. Reed. This December 1954 Christmas issue, Arizona Highways tells us is one of 900,000 copies published! Volume is dedicated to the season's silent, natural beauties in flora, fauna and expansive Arizona lands and the few who inhabit it. Historic resource.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1954. Volume XXX (30), No 11, November 1954 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Vintage. BRAND NEW Copy, showing trace margin discoloration. Stapled softcover/NF; w/light edge rubs. COVER ART: "State Tree", the Blue Palo Verde, photo by Esther Henderson. This November 1954 36 page issue features: 1, Palo Verde, state tree of Arizona; 2Twenty-Four Hours of Magic (Zuni Shalako Dance with artist Paul Coze as guide); 3, Winter Lace; and 4, Yours Sincerely.

Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 1989. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. A literary anthology thematically bound by the adventures of mountaineering --- the pragmatics and techniques, facts and fiction, the physical duress, great triumphs and tragedies, the will to conquer and survive, testing of human limits, and man's place in nature.

New York, NY: Asian American Writers Workshop, 1998. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/fading to spine. APA, bi-annual journal of prose, poetry and art from Asian American artists as well as non-Asian writers of significant works. 198 pgs. In this volume is "Gold Mountain Lullaby" by Chi-wai Au of the Univ of Oregon: "After taking off boots & shirt/ I rub the dust off my feet/ I hide the bits of yellow/ rock beneath the pillow/ wrapped in a soiled/ piece of cloth ... Tomorrow, my heart says/ I will be a rich man".

Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. John James Audubon (Artist). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue linen boards w/maroon labeling/NF; light edge rubs & faint surface wear. DJ/None. Dyed upper text block. PO label to front cover verso & book dealer sticker to rear. Maps to front & rear endpapsers. Frostispiece: 1822 Audubon's self-portrait. Collection of first-hand narratives of ornithologist John James Audubon (1785 - 1851); memoir of his travels among men, not birds --- river captains, pioneers, men of letters, Indians & scientists. 329 pgs w/17 color plates, in 9 chapters: 1, Audubon as a Witness; 2, Kentucky Days & Nights; 3, Hunters' Tales; 4, Pioneer Types; 5, Deep South; 6, Four Proud Fowl; 7, Down East for Birds & Subscribers; 8, Out West with Buffalo & Indians; and, 9, Envoi. Botanist, author, and master of prose, Author Donald Culross Peattie (1898 - 1964) knows Audubon well; he also authored a distinctive… Read More

Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jocelyn Burt (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. DJ/NF COPY w/trace wrinkling to lower front edge. Gift inscription to first title page. History and guide to Australian national parks. Among the first countries to set aside land for public interest, Australia, since 1879, has created more than 500 conservation reserves. This volume covers some 60 National Parks, including the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press, 1993. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Christopher Harris (Photography). Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner, and slight tendency to curl. Dedicated anthology of essays highlighted with photographs from Christopher Harris, on the controversial forest/logging practice of clearcutting.

San Francisco, CA: Travelers' Tales, 2005. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. 2005 annual anthology of awarding winning travel narratives. First-person travel accounts --- perspectives from sociology, economics, anthropology, history, geography, politics, biology, and cultural studies not excluding criminology. The first narrative is Deborah Fryer's acccount of re-setting an alarm clock for an iman in the medieval town of Djenne in Timbaktu. Armchair travelling to far reaches.

New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1984. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/Fine. Collection of 10 essays of early trips into unspoilt landscapes of the desert. Excursions beyond city walls and barbed wire fences of dry lands of the Southwest and Alaska, with naturalist Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) as guide. 203 pgs in 10 chapters: 1, A Walk in the Desert Hills; 2, How it Was; 3, Days & Nights in the Old Pariah; 4, Desert Images; 5, The Damnation of a Canyon; 6, A Colorado River Journal; 7, On the High Edge of Texas; 8, Down the Sea of Cortez; 9, The Ancient Dust; and, 10, Gather at the River.

New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated boards/Fine. Ingenious, pleasant to handle clear acetate DJ/NF; strong & sound w/closed tears to back upper/lower corners. Companion volume to The Book of the Sea. Anthology of literature voicing man's conflicts and compromises, reactions, adaptations, discoveries, ideas to those upthrustings of the earth's crust we call mountains. Illustrations in halftone, gravure and line drawings. Selections made with literary excellence in mind; fiction restricted to non-narrative. Of particular convenience are the succint prefatory remarks and biographical sketches antecedent to each entry. The sections are: 1, Men Climb the Mountains; 2, Men Live & Work on the Moutains; 3, Men Against the Mountains; 4, Men Study the Mountains; 5, Men Fight on the Mountains; and, 6, Men Wonder at the Mystery of the Mountains.

New York, NY: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1960. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed steel-gray boards/Fine. DJ/None; tattered in shreds, included, but consider without. Label sticker remanent to fEP. Biography of Elsa the lioness by Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980), wife of Game Warden George Adamson stationed in Kenya. He was charged by, and killed, an lioness protecting her cubs. They raised Elsa, one of the orphaned cubs, for three years., during which they deliberately trained Elsa to fend for herself in the wild, to where she was ultimately released. The affection with which Elsa was raised, did establish a unique bond that is overwhelmingly touching and honorable, for the Adamsons and Elsa will visit for years to come. Illustrated with photos.