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  • Strange Barnyard

    by John Lane ...
    the book is about a person who is relating a story suggesting that strange and unusual farm animals down the road from where he lives are doing strange and weird things. the actions that this person says he has witnessed or is witnessing are things that these animals would not and could not ever be capable of doing or even think of doing in real life. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicken Street

    Afghanistan before the Taliban: Clearing the Deadly Remnants of War

    by John Lane ...
    This captivating work tells of Afghanistan before the Taliban - a land of majestic mountains and arid plains, terrain contaminated by the deadly remnants of war; landmines and unexploded ordnance, silent killers ready to kill and maim the innocent and unsuspecting. A historic and timeless land of fearless warriors and never ending-conflict. A country where there have been many losers in years gone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fate Moreland's Widow

    A Novel

    by John Lane ...
    Corruption, infatuation, and conflicting loyalties collide in a rural Southern mill town in this debut novel by an award-winning poet and environmentalist.On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker—a reluctant participant in the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Practice of Settlement, Finding a Sense of Place, The

    by John Lane ...
    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Lane drew a circle on a map that represented a one-mile radius from his home, and explored every facet of the place including the topography, history, ancient and current citizenry, and industry. This exploration sharpened his sense of place and serves as a model for how we might look at our own homes, terrain, and communities. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Paddle to the Sea

    Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas

    by John Lane ...
    Series series Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    "In an age that values faster and faster travel, Lane's river memoir affirms the great value of floating and observing."— BooklistThree 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, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coyote Settles the South

    by John Lane ...
    Series Book 84 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    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 and unexpected neighbors.Coyote Settles the South is the story of his journey through the Southeast, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Aluminium in Building

    by John Lane ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992. Aluminium is a relatively new material, first used on a commercial basis just over 100 years ago. Today it has taken its place alongside other traditional materials as an established building element. In this variable reference source, John Lane discusses the history and development of aluminium usage in the building industry. Its characteristics of strength, lightness and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Chattooga

    Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River

    by John Lane ...
    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 Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Very Peruvian Practice

    Travels with La Señora

    by John Lane ...
    Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most perceptive accounts ever written about Peru, this travel book is exotically set in South America, spanning the sandy shores of the Pacific coast, across the heights of the snow-capped Andes to the dark rain forests of the Amazon, relating an interlude passed by an English adviser based in Lima improbably establishing a Ladies' Healthcare Clinic.Aside from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homeward Blows the Wind

    by John Lane ...
    Romance, adventure, adversity and success - such is the panoramic sweep of this compelling story that starts and finishes in the little-known heart of the Amazon rain forest. A story that reaches out from the New World to the Old and back again to the jungle city of Iquitos and the headwaters of the mighty Amazon, king of rivers - this is a triumphal and joyous celebration of love and creation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maid of Thuro

    The arrival of a party of aliens from a distant world would arouse mixed feelings in the mind of any human witness involved. But if the strangers prove to be the advance party of a gigantic global migration scheme most human beings would almost certainly be afraid. Hardly surprising, therefore, that Mike and Jay, caught up in the mesh of just such a situation, were two very frightened people. But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Neighborhood Hawks

    A Year Following Wild Birds

    Series Book 69 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    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 the lives of those brooding migratory raptors. Baker imagined a species on the brink of extinction ... Read more

    $20.89 USD