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  • A Last Wild Place

    Seasons in the Wilderness

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he renamed 'Wildernesse' was to be his home for many years, which he shared with his beloved German Shepherd, Moobli.Centred on different landscape elements ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Earth and Paradise

    An Island Life

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland.There he rebuilt an abandoned croft house and began a new way of life observing nature. He tracked foxes and stags, made friends with seals and taught an injured sparrow-hawk to hunt for ... Read more

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  • Between Earth and Paradise

    An Island Life

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    "One man's search for peace and beauty in an increasingly frenetic world has never read so well or so evocatively." — Eifion Rees, Shooting Times & Country MagazineAfter giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Last Wild Place

    Seasons in the Wilderness

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he renamed 'Wildernesse' was to be his home for many years, which he shared with his beloved German Shepherd, Moobli. Centred on different landscape ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Earth and Paradise

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies found Eilean Shona, a remote island 'between earth and paradise' off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt a rotting wooden crofthouse which sheep had used for shelter from the bitter Atlantic winds and began a new way of life, observing nature, that ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Alone in the Wilderness

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    This is the story of a man who achieved what thousands only dream of. He shed the pressures of urban life as an international journalist and exchanged it for solitude, self-sufficiency and new purpose. He emigrated to Canada, found a plot of rock, trees and cliffs in a remote part of the British Columbian coastline, and moved in with typewriter, tent and the barest necessities to build his dream ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Running Wild

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    Within days of arriving back from five years of studying bears, wolves and lynxes in Spain, he is up a wild cliff in Cornwall watching three peregrine falcon chicks from hatching to flying stage. We can follow his astounding adventures over the next ten years as he obsessively searches all through Britain for that elusive ‘small wild paradise’ so many of us would also like to find. He lives in, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Wildcat Haven

    by Mike Tomkies ...
    Some seven years after abandoning the life of an international journalist for a life in the wilds, Mike Tomkies began a remarkable experiment, rearing the most ferocious animal to roam wild in Britain - the Scottish wildcat. The true wildcat is now an endangered species and only to be found in inaccessible parts of the Scottish mountains. It may look like a giant domestic tabby, but with its ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska

    True Stories of Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness

    Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman’s adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes, to kayaking in Alaska’s pristine waters, she describes her many encounters with the bears, moose and other animals that make this wilderness their home. With her partner David she helped to build a cabin on a remote piece of property, off the grid and ... Read more

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  • Lady Luck Quits the Yukon

    by Lynn M. Berk ...
    A gunshot sends a motorcycle careening across the Klondike Highway leaving a trail of blood. Members of an anti-casino group are targeted by persons unknown. A beloved citizen of Dawson is stabbed to death in broad daylight. A hate group destroys First Nation artifacts and invades an important celebration. Lydia Falkner longs to return to her Yukon River sanctuary, but her life has been threatened ... Read more

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  • To Die Alone in the Yukon

    by Lynn M. Berk ...
    After five months of teaching in Alaska, Lydia Falkner is back in the Yukon Territory. She is anxious to return to her beloved wilderness cabin. The salmon are running, the bears are afoot, and the fireweed is in bloom. Lydia longs to embrace it all. But, at the request of Teddy an old and dear friend, she will first visit a salmon research project on the Yukon River. The researchers share a camp ... Read more

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  • Elbow Room: A Tale of Tenacity on Kodiak Island, Alaska

    by D. D. Fisher ...
    Set on a misty remote island in the Gulf of Alaska, a young couple struggles to establish roots on the rugged mountainous terrain of a small fishing community. From humorous fishing excursions and frightening bear encounters to snow blinding blizzards and quirky characters, they come face to face with the unpredictable Mother Nature and learn the value of friendship, survival, and solitude in a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus