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The Gray Whales of Baja

By: Wendy Wilder Larsen,Josie Merck

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In March of 2005 Josie Merck and Wendy Wilder Larsen traveled to Baja California, to the San Ignacio Lagoon, to see firsthand where gray whales are born, and where mothers present their calves to the pangas (small boats) filled with visiting humans. This pristine birthing lagoon was saved from being developed into a huge salt plant planned by the Mexican and Japanese governments, thanks to the efforts of many individuals, companies, school children and non-profit groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council. Moved by the adventure each recorded her joy and astonishment: Merck with paintings, charcoal drawings and collages, and Larsen with poems. The result, The Gray Whales of Baja, is a collaboration.

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1300383240

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9781300383246

The Wilder Life

My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

By: Wendy McClure

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The Wilder Life

My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

By: Wendy McClure

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones-and find that our old love has only deepened.

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Penguin

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1101486538

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9781101486535

Shallow Graves

Two Women and Vietnam

By: Wendy Wilder Larsen,Thi Nga Tran

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Shallow Graves

Two Women and Vietnam

By: Wendy Wilder Larsen,Thi Nga Tran

In 1970 Wendy Larsen went to Vietnam to teach English to Vietnamese students and join her husband, a journalist covering the war. Tran Thi Nga, the bookkeeper in his office became Larsen's friend and guide through the maze of life in Saigon. ... in 1975 ... Nga escaped and came to America. ... As their friendship deepend, they decided to work together on a book. For months they met and Nga told her life story ... Larsen then transformed her words into narrative verse. The poems, coupled with the ones Larsen had already written, became Shallow Graves. --Harper Perennial Donated by Wendy Larsen, 8/2011.

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308

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Harper Perennial

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0060970936

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9780060970932

The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place

By: Wendy Harding

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The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place

By: Wendy Harding

From the moment the first English-speaking explorers and settlers arrived on the North American continent, many have described its various locations and environments as empty. Indeed, much of American national history and culture is bound up with the idea that parts of the landscape are empty and thus open for colonization, settlement, economic improvement, claim staking, taming, civilizing, cultivating, and the exploitation of resources. In turn, most Euro-American nonfiction written about the landscape has treated it either as an object to be acted upon by the author or an empty space, unspoiled by human contamination, to which the solitary individual goes to be refreshed and rejuvenated. In The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place, Wendy Harding identifies an important recent development in the literature of place that corrects the misperceptions resulting from these tropes. Works by Rick Bass, Charles Bowden, Ellen Meloy, Jonathan Raban, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Sullivan move away from the tradition of nature writing, with its emphasis on the solitary individual communing with nature in uninhabited places, to recognize the interactions of human and other-than-human presences in the land. In different ways, all six writers reveal a more historically complex relationship between Americans and their environments. In this new literature of place, writers revisit abandoned, threatened, or damaged sites that were once represented as devoid of human presence and dig deeper to reveal that they are in fact full of the signs of human activity. These writers are interested in the role of social, political, and cultural relationships and the traces they leave on the landscape. Throughout her exploration, Harding adopts a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on the theories of geographers, historians, sociologists, and philosophers to understand the reasons for the enduring perception of emptiness in the American landscape and how this new literature of place works with and against these ideas. She reminds us that by understanding and integrating human impacts into accounts of the landscape, we are better equipped to fully reckon with the natural and cultural crisis that engulfs all landscapes today.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609382927

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Book's by Wendy Wilder Larsen

The Gray Whales of Baja

The Gray Whales of Baja

The Wilder Life

The Wilder Life

Shallow Graves

Shallow Graves

The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place

The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place

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