Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018
ISBN 10: 1937226972 ISBN 13: 9781937226978
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. SIGNED: 89pp. Dueodecimo [17.5cm]. Textured illustrated wraps. NEW. Signed by author on title page. Acclaimed author Amy Irvine does what many have been afraid to do: Equal parts appreciative and admonishing, Desert Cabal tackles the elements of Edward Abbey's wilderness manifesto (and hallowed persona) that may have not aged well. Bringing the eco-fight into the age of GoPros, Razors, starving polar bears, and horrifying executive orders, Irvine's beautiful and personal new book is sure to provoke a reaction from every reader! We hosted Amy on October 23, 2018.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018
ISBN 10: 1937226972 ISBN 13: 9781937226978
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition: second state. SIGNED. 89pp. Duodecimo [17.5cm]. Textured illustrated wraps. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2020
ISBN 10: 1948814382 ISBN 13: 9781948814386
Anbieter: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. N/none, pb, 163pp. Perfect bound, illustrated stiff paper wraps with black colored text on upper and on uncreased spine; tail tip of lower and several pages have been bumped but not creased; else interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2022
ISBN 10: 1948814579 ISBN 13: 9781948814577
Anbieter: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Gary Gackstatter (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near fine/none, used but looks like new, illustrated stiff paper wraps, 224pp. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners square.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2020
ISBN 10: 1948814382 ISBN 13: 9781948814386
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First Torrey House Press Edition. 163pp. Duodecimo [17.4cm]. Illustrated wraps. Blue spine with black lettering. When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvineâ"who had never metâ"began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world. -- From Publisher.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2023
ISBN 10: 1948814854 ISBN 13: 9781948814850
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 148pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.".
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2022
ISBN 10: 1948814579 ISBN 13: 9781948814577
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. SIGNED. 224pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2023
ISBN 10: 1948814692 ISBN 13: 9781948814690
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 218pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Amid the current alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, according to lore, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese minersâ"perhaps as many as three hundredâ"and pushed their bodies over a cliff into the river. The little-known incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for more than thirty years, Spagna had never before heard of this event. She set out to discover exactly what happened and why. Consulting historians, archaeologists, Indigenous elders, and even a grave dowser, Spagna uncovers three possible versions of the event: Native people as perpetrators; White people as perpetrators; It didn't happen at all.".
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2022
ISBN 10: 1948814617 ISBN 13: 9781948814614
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 260pp. Octavo. [20cm] Pictorial wraps. "After an upstate New York childhood and a bartending stint in New Orleans' French Quarter, seasonal resort work led R. E. Burrillo to the desert Southwest, whose redrock landscapes were a source of stability through mental and physical illness. In The Backwoods of Everywhere, archaeologist Burrillo excavates his past, examining Indigenous and tourist cultures, the complexities of American archaeology, and what it means to be a local. In the vein of Bill Bryson, Tim Cahill, and Ellen Meloy, Burrillo's is a fresh voice in humor-spiked nature writing and cultural commentary." - From the publisher.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2023
ISBN 10: 1948814730 ISBN 13: 9781948814737
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 317pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Author and explorer Morgan Sjogren retraces the 1920s expeditions led by Charles L. Bernheimer into the heart of Glen Canyon and Bears Ears National Monument. Using journals and photographs from the expeditions to recreate these historic routes, Sjogren encounters powerful perspectives and stories about land management and human rights issues that carry forth into the present. Mindful of the pervasive effects of colonization and motivated by a deeply personal care for the land, Sjogren asks what it means to be an explorer while learning from the people who have loved the land for millennia and moments.".
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2021
ISBN 10: 194881448X ISBN 13: 9781948814485
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. SIGNED. 377pp. Octavo. Green pictorial wraps. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessonsâ"of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedienceâ"hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2021
ISBN 10: 1948814536 ISBN 13: 9781948814539
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. 269 pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps. "New World Coming" documents this distinct moment in history through personal narratives and intergenerational imaginings of a just, healthy, and equitable future. Writers reflect on what movements for justice and liberation can learn from the response to COVID-19, uprisings for Black lives, and climate crisis, inspiring the change we need to survive and thrive. These powerful narratives cultivate and strengthen our imaginations for a regenerative future. -Torrey House Press.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2022
ISBN 10: 1948814714 ISBN 13: 9781948814713
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: New. First edition. SIGNED. 160pp. + unpaginated journal. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Craig Childs in black ink on the title page. "Originally published over twenty-five years ago, 'Stone Desert' brings the wonder and wildness of one of our nation's most geologically and culturally unique national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition includes Craig Childs's original journalâ"written over a winter in Canyonlands National Park and complete with pen-and-ink sketchesâ"from which Stone Desert originated. Join Childs as he hikes the high mesas, navigates the winding canyons, and witnesses the ancient rock art of Utah's most inscrutable and remote slickrock desert.".
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial paper wrap, in fine condition. Tight binding, clean interior. Signed by author on title page. Archeologist R. E. Burrillo explores the troubled tourism & resort culture of both New Orleans & the Southwest. ; 8vo 5" - 8" tall; 264 pp; Signed by Author.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2019
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial paper wrap, in fine condition. Tight binding, clean interior. Signed by author on title page. This book is both a poetic travelogue and a spiritual guide to fluvial sustainability. As Lawton writes, "The water we all depend upon teaches us about ourselves."; 8vo 5" - 8" tall; 204 pp; Signed by Author.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2019
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial paper wrap, in fine condition. Tight binding, clean interior. Inscribed by author to previous owner. This copy belonged to Marc Thomas. He served on the executive board of the Sierra Club, eventually becoming Utah's chair, as well as an advocate with local & state agencies for creating Bears Ears National Monument, the Pinto Arch trail, and several other landmarks. Written by Karin Anderson, a Utah Valley University English professor, this novel follows a Utah mother & a choir of voices in her Mormon ancestry as she traverses in wilderness. ; 8vo 5" - 8" tall; 324 pp; Signed by Author.
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial paper wrap, in fine condition. Tight binding, clean interior. Inscribed by author to previous owner on title page. This copy belonged to Marc Thomas. He served on the executive board of the Sierra Club, eventually becoming Utah's chair, as well as an advocate with local & state agencies for creating Bears Ears National Monument, the Pinto Arch trail, and several other landmarks. This book coversthe 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and reckons with the past, present, and future impacts of energy development in the Southwest.; 8vo 5" - 8" tall; 318 pp; Signed by Author.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2022
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial paper wrap, in fine condition. Tight binding, clean interior. Signed by author on title page. This book is a collection of essays by Pricilla Solis Ybarra, Joe Saenz, Aldo Leopold, and more, all celebrating a century of New Mexico's Gila River.; 8vo 5" - 8" tall; 180 pp; Signed by Author.
Verlag: Torrey House Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 2019
ISBN 10: 1948814188 ISBN 13: 9781948814188
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. First Torrey House Press Edition, October 2019. Signed by the author on the title page. Beige illustrated wrappers with maroon and black lettering on cover and spine. "Autographed Copy" sticker on cover. Near fine with very slight shelf wear. Tight binding and clean interior. Includes occasional black and white illustrations. This collection of essays by award-winning writer and adventurer Craig Childs focuses on desert icons ? human, animal, and otherwise. Signed by Author(s).