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"A rewarding and enriching fusion of traditional wisdom, science
and first-hand experience." -Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural
Navigator, and How to Read Nature Drawing from a similar lifestyle
and environmental ethic as Henry D. Thoreau and Aldo Leopold,
Babcock has lived more than two decades off-grid deep in the forest
near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Here he has
discovered a balance in the interconnectedness of all life in the
woods, and derived his sustenance from hunting, fishing, gardening,
gathering wild food, providing water from a hand-pump well and
minimal electricity from the sun. He befriended an Ojibwe Elder,
Chi-Ma'iingan (Big Wolf), from whom he learned the Seven
Grandfather Teachings (Wisdom, Love, Respect, Courage, Honesty,
Humility, and Truth). Each of these seven teachings are represented
by an animal. In this collection, Babcock shares his love of the
natural world through a unique land ethic that combines the
ideology of Thoreau and Leopold, and that which he learned from
Chi-Ma'iingan. Babcock proposes a radical shift in how Americans
support our environment and wildlife. He was recently featured in
the documentary films: MEDICINE OF THE WOLF, and WOLF SPIRIT. From
these pages: "We must stop seeing the natural world as a commodity
and start seeing it as we would see a family member-something to
love, protect, care for, and cherish."
"We do not own these woods. They own us" - Timothy Goodwin "(This
book)Â is arresting, like the wee lesson at the end of an
Aesop's fable. All who spend time in the woods ... will deeply
appreciate this book." –Minneapolis Star Tribune Goodwin's book
is an intimate journey into the Northwoods. As a biologist,
musician and artist, he explores the diversity of life, from flora
to fauna, who live in the forest near his cabin in the woods. This
book is truly like taking a walk in nature with a good friend
who has a scientific eye and the soul of an artist. Includes 60
original illustrations by the author.
2020 Montana Book Award Honor Book “(These) stories should be
required reading.” -Montana Book Award Committee Tom
“Harp” Harpole was a horse logger working from remote mountain
camps and living in wall tents until an accident suggested a change
of lifestyle. He took to his other avocation – writing, and
studied abroad in Ireland. He began publishing stories in
periodicals such as Smithsonian Air & Space, Sports
Illustrated, Crocodil, Montana Quarterly, Whitefish Review, and
more. In 1986 his story “The Last of Butch” (Faber & Faber,
London) was selected as The Best Short Story in the British Isles.
His work has been short-listed for the National Magazine Award
twice, and translated into six languages. He has been a guest
reader on NPR more than a dozen times. Harpole writes in a voice
that uses his natural wit and humor to shed light on a life
of stories that bring readers to the edge of danger. “Tom Harpole
is what you might call a thinking man’s Evel Knievel,” - Aaron
Parrett, author of Montana: Then & Now Certain magazines that
assigned Harp feature articles knew early on that he would try
anything that involved physical/emotional risks. He regarded
himself as a Survivor’s Euphoria aficionado. His
willingness and perspective on dalliances with danger range from an
N.F.L. record, to horse logging, to skydiving with Russian
cosmonauts, to getting a black bear stoned, to his compassion as a
volunteer EMT in rural Montana, to protesting Gorbachev in 1990, to
driving ice roads above the Arctic circle, and more. This book is a
collection of sixteen of his most popular stories. Â
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