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A Road Running Southward - Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land: Dan Chapman A Road Running Southward - Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land
Dan Chapman
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman, distressed by sprawl-driven environmental ills in a region he loves, recreated Muir’s journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir’s time. Channelling Muir, he uses humour, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South’s natural riches. But he laments that a treasured way of life for generations of Southerners is endangered as long-simmering struggles intensify over misused and dwindling resources. Chapman seeks to discover how Southerners might balance surging population growth with protecting the natural beauty Muir found so special. Each chapter touches upon a local ecological problem—at-risk species in Mammoth Cave, coal ash in Kingston, Tennessee, climate change in the Nantahala National Forest, water wars in Georgia, aquifer depletion in Florida—that resonates across the South. Chapman delves into the region’s natural history, moving between John Muir’s vivid descriptions of a lush botanical paradise and the myriad environmental problems facing the South today. Along the way he talks to locals with deep ties to the land—scientists, hunters, politicians, and even a Muir impersonator—who describe the changes they’ve witnessed and what it will take to accommodate a fast-growing population without destroying the natural beauty and a cherished connection to nature. A Road Running Southward is part travelogue, part environmental cri de coeur, and paints a picture of a South under siege. It is a passionate appeal, a call to action to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.

A Road Running Southward - Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land (Hardcover): Dan Chapman A Road Running Southward - Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land (Hardcover)
Dan Chapman
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman, distressed by sprawl-driven environmental ills in a region he loves, recreated Muir’s journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir’s time. Channelling Muir, he uses humour, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South’s natural riches. But he laments that a treasured way of life for generations of Southerners is endangered as long-simmering struggles intensify over misused and dwindling resources. Chapman seeks to discover how Southerners might balance surging population growth with protecting the natural beauty Muir found so special. Each chapter touches upon a local ecological problem—at-risk species in Mammoth Cave, coal ash in Kingston, Tennessee, climate change in the Nantahala National Forest, water wars in Georgia, aquifer depletion in Florida—that resonates across the South. Chapman delves into the region’s natural history, moving between John Muir’s vivid descriptions of a lush botanical paradise and the myriad environmental problems facing the South today. Along the way he talks to locals with deep ties to the land—scientists, hunters, politicians, and even a Muir impersonator—who describe the changes they’ve witnessed and what it will take to accommodate a fast-growing population without destroying the natural beauty and a cherished connection to nature. A Road Running Southward is part travelogue, part environmental cri de coeur, and paints a picture of a South under siege. It is a passionate appeal, a call to action to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.

Be not forgot - Remembrances of Life, Love and A Little Larceny (Paperback): Dan Chapman Be not forgot - Remembrances of Life, Love and A Little Larceny (Paperback)
Dan Chapman
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poetic Justice - The Lost Art of Reason, Rhyme and Meter (Paperback): Dan Chapman Poetic Justice - The Lost Art of Reason, Rhyme and Meter (Paperback)
Dan Chapman
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
War Torn (Paperback): Dan Chapman War Torn (Paperback)
Dan Chapman
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That Not Impossible She - A critical study of gender and individualism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Paperback): Dan... That Not Impossible She - A critical study of gender and individualism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Paperback)
Dan Chapman
R205 Discovery Miles 2 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Maurice Hindle famously described Mary Shelley's first novel as "the most radical critique of the 'Enlightenment project' available in modern literature." This work builds on previous studies of Shelley's novel, by highlighting the instability of the male narratives which dominated her own time. A close reading of her novel, what might cautiously be termed a deconstruction, reveals how Shelley places John Locke's 'possessive' individual in a state of war with himself. It demonstrates how, through the emblem of Frankenstein's Creature, Shelley's text exposes the contradictions in modern thought regarding the fixity of stability of the human subject, and most crucially, the implications of gendering that subject.

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