Gary Ferguson: 11 books
Hawks Rest
A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
"Among the many pleasures of rereading Gary Ferguson's Hawks Rest, is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again."-MARK...
The Carry Home
Lessons from the American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
An award-winning “big-hearted soul-searching memoir about . . . a man looking to nature for answers after the death of his beloved wife” (Los Angeles Times).
In 2005, “ever-evocative nature writer Gary Ferguson” lost his wife Jane in tragic canoeing accident on the Kopka River in northern...
Through the Woods
A Journey Through America's Forests
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Through the Woods is a journey through the rich beauty of America’s forests, sharing interviews with people whose lives are intertwined with America’s woodlands. This edition includes a new introduction by Gary Ferguson, who reminds us that now, more than ever, kinship with the earth is essential."By...
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Same-sex marriage is a hotly debated topic in the United States, and the world, today. From the tenor of most discussions, however, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in this...
Land on Fire
The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
“This comprehensive book offers a fascinating overview of how those fires are fought, and some conversation-starters for how we might reimagine our relationship with the woods.” —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Wildfire season is burning longer and hotter,...
Chameleons
Care and Breeding of Jackson's, Panther, Veiled, and Parson's
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The one and only chameleon is world renowned for its ability to change its skin color rapidly (throughout movement of pigment cells) and for the outrageous length of its tongue (more than one and a half times its body length!). Relatives of agamids and iguanas, chameleons are insect-eating, tree climbing...
Decade of the Wolf
Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. The wolves have not only survived...
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature
What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life
Looking around at the world today—a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation—it is easy...
Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance
Homosexuality, Gender, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of classical sources, this book examines representations of homosexuality in sixteenth-century France. Analysing a wide range of texts and topics, it presents an assessment of queer...
by Gary P Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
If you were a fan of the old Twilight Zone television series...you will love my new short story LOST IN AN EMPTY SKULL It's a mysterious account of the strange disappearance of one Ambrose Bierce in the Mexican desert, with a twist at the end you won't see coming...just like the old series. As the...
by Edward Bryant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Eneasz Brodski
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Edward Bryant influenced a generation of readers and writers.
Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence includes stories by Connie Willis, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kevin J. Anderson, Gary Jonas, Lucy Taylor, Bruce Holland Rogers, and many more! Over the years Ed Bryant influenced many writers. In this...