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Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learnin...

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Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learnin...

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Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascinatio...

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Chronicles the life of a former slave who became a famous nineteenth-century abolitionist.

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"Everything is connected, and the web is holy." So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of t...

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To environmentalists, wilderness is a valuable resource and a sacred place; to many ranchers, wilderness means eviction and government interference. Russell, herself a westerner, here tackles the complex and controversial issues of land health and...

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In the tradition of Jean Auel, this well-researched novel authentically recreates the world of the Clovis people. Publishers Weekly These children had never seen a tapir. They had never seen a mammoth. So reflects Willow, clan elder of the Clovis ...

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Filled with honest writing and wise observations, Russells well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest (Library Journal). In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved with her husband to an agricultural valley...

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An award-winning science and nature writer presents a lively, confident, and free-flowing history of archaeology in America (Booklist). Digging up the relics of the past is not without controversy. With insight and eloquence, Sharman Apt Russell r...

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A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest. Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russell felt pressed by the current environmental cris...

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