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FROM: Malin1228@aol.com
REC'D: 2/14/01, 5:29 PM
Tracy Allen
Anoka County Library
FROM: Thelma Stone <tstone@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 5:41 PM
FROM: "Jeanne Meyer" <meyerj@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 6:02 PM
FROM: "Laurel Goodgion" <goodgion@portland.lib.ct.us>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 6:02 PM
I recommend
Teale's A Naturalist Buys an old farm
Redtails in Love
Laurel Goodgion, Director
Portland Library
20 Freestone Ave.
Portland, CT 06480
email: goodgion@portland.lib.ct.us
phone: (860) 342-6771
fax: (860) 342-6778
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From: <Malin1228@aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: Nature Fiction
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he
loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really
into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature
lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
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FROM: "Warner" <warner@massed.net>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 6:44 PM
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he
loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really
into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature
lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
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FROM: "Catherine Les" <cathyles@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 7:29 PM
>Hi-
Maybe he would like the books by Sue Hubbell - "Country Year," "On this
Hilltop," and "Book of Bees." They're about her move to the Ozarks and
beginning to keep bees. She includes lots of description of "nature type
things." She's also an ex-librarian.
Cathy McCullough Les
Sterling Heights Public Library (MI)
>
>I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
>about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which
>he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on
>his list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
>canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really
>into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature
>lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Tracy Allen
>Anoka County Library
>
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REC'D: 2/14/01, 11:36 PM
<<
I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he
loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really into
the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature lover.
Any other ideas would be appreciated.
Tracy Allen
Anoka County Library >>
How about A River Runs Through It?
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: Suzanne Pontius <suzannepontius@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 7:55 AM
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FROM: aaron smith <smithaa@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 8:16 AM
I think a possible author of interest would be Barry Lopez, who skillfully
steers an ambiguous path between description and imagination in a number
of titles grounded in nature. He uses spirituality as an access point to
the imagination, but it is never of an orthodox variety.
A few are listed below:
Arctic dreams : imagination and desire in a northern landscape (1986)
(Lopez' own experience living north of the arctic circle)
Crossing open ground (1988)
Of wolves and men (1978)
Those below are short stories grounded in nature and landscape:
Desert notes: reflections in the eyes of a raven (1990)
River notes : the dance of herons (1990)
Field notes: the grace note of the canyon wren (1994) [stories]
I hope this is helpful ...
Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 Malin1228@aol.com wrote:
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 8:16 AM
Did he read "The Yearling"? Or Sterling North's "Rascal"?
Although they're not fiction, he might enjoy Gerald Durrell's many books
about his experiences as an animal collector for zoos in Africa, South
America, and other exotic parts. The first two, "A Zoo in My Luggage" and
"The Bafut Beagles," contain some of the funniest prose I have yet to read.
On a similar note, Reader's Digest brought out some books on this general
theme some years back. They include "Marvels & Mysteries of Our Animal
World," "Our Magnificent Wildlife" (I happen to own this one and it's
splendid), "Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World," "Curious
Creatures," "Joy of Nature: How to Observe & Appreciate the Great
Outdoors," "Animals You Will Never Forget," "Animals Can Be Almost Human,"
and "Exploring the Secrets of Nature." There are also a number of fine
illustrated volumes from National Geographic and Time-Life which might
interest him.
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FROM: Viccy Kemp <Viccy.Kemp@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 8:26 AM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malin1228@aol.com [SMTP:Malin1228@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:24 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Nature Fiction
>
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
> about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which
> he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on
> his list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp.
> about canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't
> really into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old
> nature lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Kate Gillette" <kate@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:07 AM
Kate Gillette
Novi Public Library
Novi, MI
FROM: "Todd Caviness, Automation Specialist" <automation@mcpl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:28 AM
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness - Pete
Fromm
A college student spends a winter in the wilderness watching over
salmon fingerlings.
Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range - C.L. Rawlings
A man spends a year in the Wind River Range in Wyoming hiking, skiing
and taking care of pollution monitering equipment.
todd
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters
> reading about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross
> Creek - which he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is
> running out. Most on his list have been non-fiction communing with
> nature type things esp. about canoes. He will read YA books and has
> read Gary Paulson. He isn't really into the harsh wilderness survival
> type stories. He's just an old nature lover. Any other ideas would be
> appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
> ......................................................................
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> Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
===========================
Todd Caviness
Automation Specialist
Mid-Continent Public Library
automation@mcpl.lib.mo.us
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
FROM: "Brad Scott" <bscott@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:28 AM
Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library
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From: Malin1228@aol.com
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:23:55 EST
>I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Tracy Allen
>Anoka County Library
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:50 AM
>From: Bsbgc@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Nature Fiction
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:29:45 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/14/2001 6:24:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>Malin1228@aol.com writes:
>
><<
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
>about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which
>he
>loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
>list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
>canoes.
"Canoeing With the Cree," by Eric Sevareid, and "The Survival of the Bark
Canoe," by John McPhee, should catch his interest.
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FROM: "Community Relations Department" <comrel@orion.org>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:50 AM
Along this same vein, I enjoyed the books of Peter Jenkins, the first of
which was "Walk Across America."
Nancy Parry McCluer
Community Relations Department
Springfield-Greene County Library
Springfield, MO comrel@orion.org
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/
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From: <Malin1228@aol.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Nature Fiction
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he
loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really
into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature
lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Lisa Olsen <lolsen@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:50 AM
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Lisa A. Olsen
Information Services
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
East Regional Library
4809 Clinton Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-8401
(910)485-2955
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 Malin1228@aol.com wrote:
> I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Tracy Allen
> Anoka County Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Amy Cochran <acochran@grpl.org>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 11:44 AM
Amy Cochran
Grand Rapids Public Library
Warner wrote:
> Henry David Thoreau---
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> From: <Malin1228@aol.com>
> To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:23 PM
> Subject: Nature Fiction
>
> > I am looking for books for an elderly man who spends his winters reading
> about canoe trips and nature experience. I suggested -Cross Creek - which he
> loved. He usually has a list of his own, but he is running out. Most on his
> list have been non-fiction communing with nature type things esp. about
> canoes. He will read YA books and has read Gary Paulson. He isn't really
> into the harsh wilderness survival type stories. He's just an old nature
> lover. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Tracy Allen
> > Anoka County Library
> >
> > ......................................................................
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 1:20 PM
"The Wolfling," by Sterling North.
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 1:31 PM
An old-fashioned writer your patron might like is Sir Charles G. D. Roberts,
a Canadian who turned out numerous volumes about the wild creatures of the
North. He might also try Ernest Seton Thompson.
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FROM: "Corky Lee" <clee@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 1:31 PM
Corky Lee
Readers' Services
Des Plaines Public Library
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FROM: Jeanne Etling <jetling@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 2:24 PM
I second the Anna Pigeon mysteries by Nevada Barr, latest is just out.
Have you suggested James Fennimore Cooper?
HTH
Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District
FROM: Annette Weiss <weissann@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 4:52 PM
A place on the water : an angler's reflections on home
The river home : an angler's explorations
Canoeing Michigan rivers : a comprehensive guide to 45 rivers
From a Wooden Canoe : Reflections on Canoeing, Camping, and Classic
Equipment
This library has the first three titles, so I know that you could
interloan them.
Annette
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REC'D: 2/15/01, 5:45 PM
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FROM: Vicki Nesting <vnestin@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 2/15/01, 9:07 PM
My husband also highly recommends the writings of sports writer Gene
Hill who died a couple years ago. His work has been collected in a
number of nonfiction books such as Passing a Good Time, The Whispering
Wings of Autumn, Outdoor Yarns and Outright Lies, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Vicki Nesting, Regional Branch Librarian
St. Charles Parish
East Regional Library
Destrehan, Louisiana
vnesting@stcharles.lib.la.us
vnestin@bellsouth.net
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FROM: Claudia C Breland <ccbreland@juno.com>
REC'D: 2/16/01, 11:06 AM
Claudia Breland
King County Library System
Seattle, WA
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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 2/16/01, 11:16 AM
Martha Spencer
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REC'D: 2/16/01, 1:34 PM
Martha Bisek
Dakota County - Heritage Library
Lakeville, Minnesota
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/17/01, 9:28 AM
Hal Borland has written numerous books with a nature theme.
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/17/01, 9:48 AM
Helen Hoover's "The Gift of the Deer," "The Years of the Forest," "Animals
at My Doorstep," and other titles may interest your patron.
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FROM: Malin1228@aol.com
REC'D: 2/17/01, 1:38 PM
FROM: Malin1228@aol.com
REC'D: 2/21/01, 12:23 PM
Nature Reads -
Narratives with a strong nature theme or setting:
Abbey, Edward - Desert Solitaire, etc
Bass, Rick - Platte River,etc
Borland, Hal - Countryman's Woods, High, Wide and Lonesome, etc
Brown, Tom - Awakening Spirits, The Tracker, etc
Bryson, Bill - A Walk in the Woods
Dennis, Jerry - A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home, etc
Derr, Mark - Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk
Durrell, Gerald - The Aye Aye and I , My Family and Other Animals
Fromm, Pete - Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness
Furtman,Michael - A Season for Wilderness
Gibbons, Euell - Stalking the Good Life: My Love Affiar With Nature
Gould, Stephen - The Flamingo's Smile, etc
Graves, John - Good-Bye to a River
Heat Moon, William Least - River Horse: Logbook of a Boat across America
Heinrich, Bernd - A Year in the Maine Woods, etc
Holland, Barbara - Bingo Night at the Fire hall
Hubbell, Sue - A Country Year, A Book of Bees
Kessleheim, Alan - Water and Sky:Reflections of a Northern Year
Labastille, Annie - Woodwoman, Beyond Black Bear Lake
Lopez, Barry - Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men
McCarthy, Cormac -The Border Trilogy
Maclean, Norman - A River Runs Through It
McPhee, John - Coming Into the Country, Survival of the Bark Canoe, etc
Mowat, Farley - Never Cry Wolf
Olson, Sigurd - The Lonely Land, The Hidden Forest, etc
Rawlings, C.L. - Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan - Cross Creek
Severeid, Eric - Canoeing with the Cree
Standfield, Don - Stories from the Bow Seat
Teale, Edwin Way - A Naturalist Buys and Old Farm
Winn, Mary - Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
FROM: Kelly Marszycki <rathbunlib@rcn.com>
REC'D: 2/23/01, 4:02 PM
Kelly Marszycki
Rathbun Memorial Library
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