Arctic Odyssey is a multimedia adventure through the world's last great wilderness. The book, instrumental music and CD-ROM follow photographer/composer Richard Olsenius on a National Geographic assignment along the Northwest Passage. With Olsenius as your guide you can Travel With Fruit hunters, search for new discoveries with arctic scientists and sail on the first American yacht to traverse the Northwest Passage. This unique multi-level approach to story telling provides the reader, listener and viewer an arctic adventure all their own.
81 maps and 150 historical photographs take you from the "Little Switzerland" of southeast Minnesota to the Red River oxcart trails of the northwest, and show you why this state is such a fascinating place; includes history, anecdotes and landscapes of the towns and countryside along 14 major highways.
This gorgeously illustrated celebration explores the bond between people and their canine companions--a testament to the 15,000 years shared between man and his best friend. 85 color photos.
This gorgeously illustrated celebration explores the bond between people and their canine companions--a testament to the 15,000 years shared between man and his best friend. 85 color photos.
Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. Bohannon argues here that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another. He shows how such connections become overt during natural disasters, which disrupt the narratives people use to make sense of the world,including especially religious narratives, and make them more visible. This book offers both a theoretical exploration of the intersection of the city, nature, and religion, as well as a sociological analysis of the 1997 flood in Grand Forks, ND, USA. This case study shows how religious factors have influenced how the relationship between nature and the city is perceived, and in particular have helped to justify the urban control of nature. The narratives found in Grand Forks also reveal a broader understanding of the nature of Western cities, highlighting the potent and ethically-rich intersections between religion, cities and nature.
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