Showing results for "On Earth" in World Literature

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis.

""Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose.""...

Nauchno-fantasticheskiy roman Zhyulya Verna "Puteshestvie k centru Zemli" razvorachivaet pered nami nam potryasayushchuyu kartinu zemnyh nedr, pozvolyayushchuyu zaglyanut' v proshloe nashey planety, vosstanovit' istoriyu razvitiya zhizni na Zemle. Otvazhnye puteshestvenniki, spustivshis' v krater potuhshego vulkana, pronikayut v zahvatyvayushchiy voobrazhenie, udivitel'nyy mir, osushchestvlyayut davnyuyu mechtu chelovechestva - uznat' vnutrennee stroenie zemnogo shara.

It is hard to top the pleasure of a woodland walk in Spring unless of course you have a lyric poet as your guide. Now that is possible with Poets of Nature. Let Walt Whitman, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Bronte, and Ralph Waldo Emerson take you into that realm of Nature "where we seldom wander".