In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. In Sleeping Island, Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for people met along the way. His respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life, and his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work.

Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North (First Edition)

Travel

Prentice G Downes

Canada

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This second edition has a new cover, trim size and page count. Living with love and gratitude is at the center of the well-lived life. Heron Dance celebrates the open heart and the beauty and mystery that surround us with this book of poetry, book and interview excerpts. Included are 48 watercolors by Rod MacIver and selections from the written works of Helen Keller, Rachel Naomi Remen, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Einstein, Pablo Casals, Joseph Campbell, Dostoevsky, and Henry Miller, among many others. Introduction by Heron Dance editor Ann O'Shaughnessy.

Heron Dance Book of Love And Gratitude

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Walt Whitman was indeed a wild soul. His poetry expresses an earthy sensuality out of sync with the industrial times he lived in. His love for wild nature and for the sensual experiences of life is heard in every poem. Editor, Howard Nelson, provides an insightful introduction, shedding light on Walt Whitman's life. This carefully selected collection of poems alongside the beauty of Roderick MacIver's watercolor art creates a grand tribute to this beautiful soul.

Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

WHITMAN, WALT

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This undated journal has a monthly calendar without the days of the week so that it can be used in any year. For that reason it can be sold year-round and doesn?t go out of date if not sold in the current year. The beauty of the watercolor art in combination with the best poetry from the first 10 years of the Heron Dance journal, and lots of space for personal handwritten notes, offers both functionality and daily inspiration. Featuring a beautiful watercolor cover and interior quotes to inspire reflection about what is really important in life. This softcover, 8.5" x 8.5" wire-bound book has 176 pages and is printed on high-quality paper.

Pausing for Beauty: The Heron Dance: Poetry Diary

Through watercolors, poetry, excerpts from books and interviews, Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence offers readers a retreat from our complex, fast-paced world.This book is a follow up to our very successful Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude. Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence explores the beauty, strange cohesion and complexity of the natural world and universe. Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence draws on sources as diverse as ancient Chinese poetry, contemporary song writers, wilderness adventurers, homesteaders and modern scientists. A collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Helen Keller, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Einstein, Thoreau, Henry Beston, Gary Snyder, Louise Dickinson Rich, Rumi and Lewis Thomas.

Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

This beautiful and inspiring book helps us to discover and nurture the creative spirit that is within us all. Filled with the beautiful nature watercolors of Roderick MacIver, Ann O'Shaughnessy's own short reflections, and selections from many other creative voices, Art as a Way of Life is a truly empowering and encouraging book for people wanting to live, work and love in the creative spirit. ve in the creative spirit. ve in the creative spirit. ve in the creative spirit. ve in the creative spirit. ve in the creative spirit.

Art As a Way of Life

Arts & Photography

Thoreau's work, largely ignored during his lifetime, continues to grow in influence and to inspire and confound readers. ? Thoreau and the Art of Life takes a fresh perspective on Thoreau's work, most of which dealt in some way with living what he described as the ?good life?: simplicity, living close to nature, solitude, leisure and reflection. This book examines the principles Thoreau espoused and successfully lived, as well as the principles he tried to live but was unable to or that otherwise proved impractical, and what can be learned from his struggles and contradictions. In his numerous books and 14-volume journal, Thoreau explored the subject of living a good life, a conscious life, a harmonious life from diverse, sometimes contrary, perspectives. Thoreau and the Art of Life extracts from his works hundreds of thought-provoking quotes about his life, the life that Thoreau lived, tried to live, or thought he should live.

Thoreau And the Art of Life: Percepts and Principles

Biographies & Memoirs

In his numerous books and 14-volume, two million-word journals, Thoreau explored the subject of living a good life, a conscious life, a harmonious life from diverse, sometimes contrary perspectives. This text extracts from those works hundreds of thought-provoking quotes that Thoreau lived, tried to live, or thought he should live.

Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles

Thoreau, Henry David`

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Love and Gratitude Notecards

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