Böcker av Michael Engelhard

In the footsteps of Desert Solitaire, these essays by an award-winningwriter and student of cultures sift decades of experience backpacking andboating for a stance that questions the mainstream. More than meretales of bravado, they offer glimpses into the heart of the places explored, with the Grand Canyon as their center of gravity. Vivid, finely crafted, shotthrough with humor, self-effacing while deeply opinionated, No Walk inthe Park shows what it means to meet nature on nature's terms. Read it athome in an armchair, or at a river camp, or stuff it into your pack beforeyou go wandering.Join this author on a night hike to the great chasm's bottom; trek forty days inhis company below one rim, or snowshoe along the other; visit a Hopi mesafor a ceremony; marvel at hidden rock art; sip epic solitude; tag threatenedfish; and float next to Glen Canyon's slickrock or Niagara-size fleeting falls.

Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a screen for our imagination.Ice Bear traces and illuminates this intertwined history. From Inuit shamans to Jean Harlow lounging on a bearskin rug, from the cubs trained to pull sleds toward the North Pole to cuddly superstar Knut, it all comes to life in these pages. With meticulous research and more than 160 illustrations, the author brings into focus this powerful and elusive animal. Doing so, he delves into the stories we tell about Natureand about ourselveshoping for a future in which such tales still matter.

Inspired by a year of hiking 120 desert canyons, Where the Rain Children Sleep is nature writing in the best tradition of Edward Abbey, Ellen Meloy, and Craig Childs. Much more than one man's memoir of his time in these canyons, it is an eclectic, well-informed, critical, and in-depth collection punctuated by flashes of humour and whimsy.