John Lane: 47 books

Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey...

After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont. He, his wife, and two stepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson’s Fork Creek....

Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river’s torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the...

After reading J. A. Baker’s fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. What he observed was very different from what Baker deduced from a decade of chronicling...

One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the nearby eerie and captivating howls of coyotes. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new...

In this book, John Lane calls us to awaken to the possibilities of a culture that recognizes the importance of beauty, and to acknowledge that we are only fully human in contact with the beautiful. Once, people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the...

This book is written to serve as a simple motivational tool to help, encourage and inspire those with dreams and aspirations of achieving personal goals to keep trying, even though reaching their goals may appear to be as difficult or impossible task. Hopefully, the book will serve to show that one...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Champagne Standard. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by John Lane,...

They just no longer make them like John Lane Williams, who spent seventy years of his life as a Methodist minister, sixty-five years in a happy marriage, and his entire life trying to understand lifes guiding principles. Heres what he found out: times may change, but whats important in life...

John Lane nous invite à renouer avec le silence et à l'apprivoiser. Cultiver le silence, c'est enrichir sa vie, s'épanouir intellectuellement et personnellement. En compagnie de peintres comme Cézanne et Vermeer, de poètes comme Virgile et Walt Whitman, de philosophes comme Pascal et Montaigne,...

Tommy is a Central Systems Postal Service captain tasked with returning the dead letters to their senders. On this trip a casket malfunctions. When he investigates he discovers a young woman who has been frozen for sixty-three years is thawing out. Once she awakens without any memories of her past...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

"Images of Earth & Spirit" features the work of over fifty artists: over 140 sumptuous illustrations accompanied by interviews and insights into their work. Artists featured include Robin Baring, Cecil Collins, Alan Davie, Morris Graves, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrzej Jackowski, Richard Long,...

This is a book about simplicity; not destitution, parsimoniousness, or self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. It is about the advantages of living a less cluttered, less stressful life than that which has become the norm in the...