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On the Trail of the Jackalope

How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer

by Michael P. Branch ...

The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, and the entirely real scientific breakthroughs it has inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their ... Read more

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The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, and the entirely real scientific breakthroughs it has inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their
... Read more

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Rants from the Hill

On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert

by Michael P. Branch ...

“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country NewsWelcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it’s home. Of course, living in such an ... Read more

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“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”—High Country NewsWelcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it’s home. Of course, living in such an
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Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I: Virginia

by Casey Clabough, Adrian Blevins, Mr. Greg Bottoms, Michael P. Branch, Kelly Cherry, Michael Chitwood, Mark Edmundson, Margaret Gibson, John Pineda0, Lucinda Roy1, Matthew Vollmer2, Tom Wolfe3 ...

Series Book 1 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not ... Read more

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Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not
... Read more
Raising Wild

Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness

by Michael P. Branch ...

**Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing AwardFinalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book AwardFinalist - Evans Biography and Handcart AwardAn ode the extreme landscape of Nevada's Great Basin Desert—its terrain, its wildlife, and how an intrepid father and two little girls have made the wilderness their home**Combining natural history, humor, and ... Read more

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**Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing AwardFinalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book AwardFinalist - Evans Biography and Handcart AwardAn ode the extreme landscape of Nevada's Great Basin Desert—its terrain, its wildlife, and how an intrepid father and two little girls have made the wilderness their home**Combining natural history, humor, and
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How to Cuss in Western

And Other Missives from the High Desert

by Michael P. Branch ...

Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the Hill.Edward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural ... Read more

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Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the Hill.Edward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural
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John Muir's Last Journey

South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence

by John Muir ...

Series series Pioneers of Conservation
"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a ... Read more

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"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a
... Read more
Before the West Was West

Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers

Edited by Amy T. Hamilton, Tom J. Hillard ...

Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of the “American West” in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800s, ... Read more

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Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of the “American West” in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800s,
... Read more
The Best Read Naturalist"

Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Series series Under the Sign of Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections—made up of sermons, ... Read more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his canonical essays. Organized chronologically, the thirteen selections—made up of sermons,
... Read more
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On the Trail of the Jackalope

How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer

by Michael P. Branch ...

Narrated by Eric G. Dove ...

Unabridged

8 hours 45 min

The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation ... Read more

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The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation
... Read more

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Audiobook

How to Cuss in Western

And Other Missives from the High Desert

by Michael P. Branch ...

Narrated by David Marantz ...

Unabridged

6 hours 44 min

Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the HillEdward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural ... Read more

$16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the HillEdward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed explorations of the natural world, witty cultural
... Read more

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Raising Wild

Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness

by Michael P. Branch ...

Narrated by David Marantz ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure.Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure.Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and
... Read more

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Rants from the Hill

On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert

by Michael P. Branch ...

Narrated by David Marantz ...

Unabridged

6 hours 58 min

Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, ... Read more

$16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist,
... Read more

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