Book Review
Dawn Again
by Anna Call
Primarily a memoir, "Dawn Again" focuses on Doniga Markegard’s growth from a teenage nature tracker to a regenerative rancher. "Dawn Again" represents a particularly good example of alternative schooling. The author’s experiences as...
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A Precautionary Tale
by Anna Call
Focusing on a region of the Alps where farming has been a mainstay for millennia, this book examines a successful grassroots movement to ban pesticides. The town of Mals, located in a semiautonomous region between Austria and Italy, may...
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The Oceans
by Anna Call
Covering the inception of the earth to the modern day, "The Oceans" comprehensively describes the development and many epochs of the ocean. These include the major extinction events, the interaction between the oceans and planetary...
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Eat Less Water
by Anna Call
Florencia Ramirez is a longtime water activist and educator with a profound appreciation for food and food production. In a quest to understand how farming can be less water-intensive, she interviewed a series of organic farmers and...
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Saving Tarboo Creek
by Anna Call
In the tradition and spirit of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, "Saving Tarboo Creek" describes the long, patient process of restoring a natural landscape to its original healthy state, modeling both ecology restoration and...
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Our Oldest Task
by Anna Call
This dense but well-structured philosophical text endeavors to examine the cultural causes of climate change. Drawing from the Enlightenment, American culture is fiercely individualistic. But is that a constructive attitude when that...
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Grand Canyon For Sale
by Anna Call
Evocative and passionate, this examination of invasive species, climate change, and public land use will appeal to both politically minded outdoors enthusiasts and members of the ranching community. Grand Canyon for Sale endeavors to...
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Fasting and Feasting
by Anna Call
This deliberate and meticulous biography chronicles the life of a remarkable food writer whose self-sufficiency and love of nature placed her ahead of her time. Patience Gray, the author of the classic Honey from a Weed, lived off the...