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Good Doggy Not So Good For The Environment
Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed, round-headed Canis familiaris, otherwise known as a dog. Words like “lovable,” “adorable” and “cute” immediately emerge from the viewer’s mouth. But the animal in question doesn’t have a lovable relationship with the environment. Quite the contrary.
A Lost Knife - AdventuresNW
Ecologist Aldo Leopold defined wilderness as “an area that possesses no possibility of conveyance by mechanical means.” Welcome to Mansel Island in Canada’s eastern Hudson Bay, where there are no cars, tundra buggies, ATVs, SUVs, motorcycles, or airplanes, all of which are mechanical conveyances. As my Inuit guide Jake and I explored this large, uninhabited chunk of limestone, I was obliged to use my feet, the very best conveyance of all.
Book review: Lawrence Millman’s latest offers a collection of anecdotes from the North
“The Last Speaker of Bear: My Encounters in the North” By Lawrence Millman; Trinity University Press, 2022; 192 pages; $18.95. Lawrence Millman, the author of 18 previous books as well as a frequent contributor to magazines, has spent a lifetime exploring and writing about the North. His latest small book consists of short vignettes or anecdotes chronicling his contacts with northern, largely Indigenous people and the places he visited.
An Island in the Sky - AdventuresNW
Atlin is a former gold mining town located near the Yukon border in the extreme northern part of British Columbia. From the moment I arrived there, I found myself staring at Teresa Island, which, crowned by Birch Mountain, rises 4,567 feet above Atlin Lake, making it one of the highest inland islands in the world. The longer I stared at this uninhabited mass of rock and boreal forest, the more I wanted to plant my feet on its snow-capped summit.
Mushrooms! The Fun Guys of the Book World by Michelle Carroll
We've started to get the big fall rains in Portland recently, which means we’ve started seeing mushrooms pop up everywhere. I’m a bit of a fungi novice — I love eating chanterelles, but haven’t yet embarked on the Pacific Northwest rite of passage of foraging for my own mushrooms. Luckily, there are some fantastic books to guide the next stage of my mushroom appreciation.
Mortal Poles - AdventuresNW
Situated in the southern part of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), Anthony Island dangles on the very edge of the continent, seemingly poised to be swallowed by the Pacific. Shortly after I set foot on this 395-acre tract of rock and Sitka spruce, I found myself being stared at by a bestiary of faces—eagles, black bears, killer whales, beavers, ravens, and mountain goats.
The Debatable Land of Fungi | Lawrence Millman
Mary Banning (1822–1903) An unsung nineteenth-century American mycologist who, being a woman, was ostracized from the scientific community. The only mycologist who acknowledged her was Charles Horton Peck, to whom she wrote, “You are my only friend in the debatable land of fungi.” In a mostly mycophobic country, Banning’s interest in fungi was another strike against her. Her fellow Marylanders called her the Frog Stool Lady.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Mushrooms That We Need Right Now
The following entries are from Lawrence Millman’s encyclopedia of fungal lore, Fungipedia, a compendium of all things mushroom; with illustrations by Amy Jean Porter. * ALICE IN WONDERLAND Delightfully surreal 1865 novel by the Reverend Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, which features perhaps the most famous mushroom in all of literature. On top of that mushroom is seated an almost equally famous hookah-smoking caterpillar.
What We Are Reading Today: Fungipedia by Lawrence Millman
On Feb. 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was “the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it.
An Irresistible Long-winded Bore
SOME years ago, in the slate-quarrying village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, I visited Phyllis Playter, the longtime companion of the writer John Cowper Powys. She was a tiny, ancient woman whose skin was stretched like parchment over her bones. I asked her how she had met Powys. She said, "It was in Joplin, Missouri, in 1921, and Mr. Powys was lecturing on Dostoevski. The lecture was so powerful that three people in the audience fainted.
Get the Word of the Day - lotus-eater | Dictionary.com
In book 9 of the Odyssey, Odysseus tells the story of being blown off course for nine days as he was rounding Cape Malea (the southern tip of the Peloponnesus) westward toward Ithaca, his home island. On the tenth day Odysseus and his companions landed on an unnamed island that the Greek historian Herodotus (5th century b.c.) located on the Libyan coast. The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century b.c.) specifically identified the island as Meninx (now Djerba) off the Tunisian coast.
April 2006 | The Walrus
The bird is hot. That flaxen-hued coin in your pocket is worth more than it has been since it was created in 1987. Economists predict it will fetch ninety cents or more against the US dollar before the end of the year, thanks to high prices for commoditie
An Evening Among Headhunters and Other Reports From Roads Less T – Ink 19
by Lawrence Millman Lawrence is my kinda people. If there’s a fork in the road and one way is paved and the other is a morass of dirt and mire, he’s gonna leave the asphalt for somebody else and lurch off into the morass. Good for you, Lawrence, you’re a credit to the force. 26 essays of varying age (many having previously seen print in this or that periodical), lovingly unupdated to bring them into step with the here and now. Fuck the here and now. Most of the time there and then is much better.
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