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All the Powerful Invisible Things: a Sportswoman's Notebook

A Sportswomen's Notebook

By: Gretchen Legler

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All the Powerful Invisible Things: a Sportswoman's Notebook

A Sportswomen's Notebook

By: Gretchen Legler

This stunning first collection by a widely anthologized, Pushcart prize-winning writer provides a beautifully written chronicle of outdoor life. With eloquence and honesty, Legler's work documents a fascinating journey of self-discovery, graphically and intimately exploring the themes of hunting, sexuality, and landscape.

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1595349413

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9781595349415

Woodsqueer

Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life

By: Gretchen Legler

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Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life

By: Gretchen Legler

“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences intentionally focusing on not just making a living but making a life—in this case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres in backwoods Maine. Building a home with her partner, Ruth, on their farm means learning to live with solitude, endless trees, and the wild animals the couple come to welcome as family. Whether trying to outsmart their goats, calculating how much firewood they need for the winter, or bartering with neighbors for goods and services, they hone life skills brought with them (carpentry, tracking and hunting wild game) and other skills they learn along the way (animal husbandry, vegetable gardening, woodcutting). Legler’s story is at times humbling and grueling, but it is also amusing. A homage to agrarian American life echoing the back-to-the-land movement popularized in the mid-twentieth century, Woodsqueer reminds us of the benefits of living close to the land. Legler unapologetically considers what we have lost in America, in less than a century—individually and collectively—as a result of our urban, mass-produced, technology-driven lifestyles. Illustrated with rustic pen-and-ink illustrations, Woodsqueer shows the value of a solitary sojourn and both the pathway to and possibilities for making a sustainable, meaningful life on the land. The result, for Legler and her partner, is an evolution of their humanity as they become more physically, emotionally, and even spiritually connected to their land and each other in a complex ecosystem ruled by the changing seasons.

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Trinity University Press

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159534960X

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All the Powerful Invisible Things

A Sportswoman's Notebook

By: Gretchen Legler

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A Sportswoman's Notebook

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Seal Press (CA)

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1878067702

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9781878067708

Woodsqueer

Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life

By: Gretchen Legler

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Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life

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On the Ice

An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

By: Gretchen Legler

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An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

By: Gretchen Legler

McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.

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Milkweed Editions

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157131282X

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9781571312822

On the Ice

An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

By: Gretchen Legler

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An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

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