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Join author Elbert Hubbard as he takes us on a fascinating journey to the homes of influential authors, poets, social activists, and other notable figures. Explore how their environments might have shaped their perspectives and the works they produced. This collection of insightful essays is part biography, part reflection on Hubbards interpretations of their life and work. In this particular volume, we delve into the lives of renowned scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, and many others. This is the twelfth installment in a captivating ...

“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An...

Lynn Schooler had recently lost a dear friend and was feeling his marriage slipping away from him when he set out on a daring journey - first by boat, then on foot - into the Alaskan wilderness to clear his head. His solo expedition, recounted in Walking Home, is filled with the awe and danger of being on one's own in the wild, being battered by the elements and even, for two harrowing days, becoming the terrified quarry of a grizzly bear. But the formidable, lonely landscape is also rich with human stories....

Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional medicine, Tweit turned to the natural world that was both her solace and her field of study as a plant ecologist.