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The Nature Chronicles Prize: 1 (Hardcover)
Kathryn Aalto; Contributions by Jenny Chamarette, Laura Coleman, Ben Crane, Nicola Pitchford, …
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The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the
inaugural international Nature Chronicles Prize. The Nature
Chronicles Prize is a new biennial, international, English-language
literary award founded to celebrate engaging, unique, essay-length
non-fiction that responds to the time we are in and the world as it
is. Conceived in 2020 to mark the global pandemic, the prize is
also a memorial to Prudence Scott, a lifelong nature diarist who
died in 2019. Contained within this volume are the outstanding
shortlisted entries for the inaugural prize. These winning works
express diverse responses to our planet and its life, and together
embody the best of contemporary nature writing, whether by emerging
or established authors. The anthology is introduced by bestselling
nature writer Kathryn Aalto, who was one of the prize judges.
In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares
the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she
fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was
in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to
backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the
edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and
complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically
terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in
Wayra, she made a friend for life. They weren't alone, not with
over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in
their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a
frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense
of humor. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. There
were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers,
handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who
carried Laura through. Most of all, there was the jungle-lyrical
and alive-and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so
much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of
becoming. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of
deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma
Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of
rescue find one another.
In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares
the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she
fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was
in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to
backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the
edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and
complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically
terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in
Wayra, she made a friend for life. They weren't alone, not with
over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in
their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a
frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense
of humor. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. There
were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers,
handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who
carried Laura through. Most of all, there was the jungle-lyrical
and alive-and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so
much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of
becoming. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of
deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma
Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of
rescue find one another.
Why would a child be naughty during the Christmas season? A young
boy shows how one year, being naughty was actually his way of being
nice.
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