Ecologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the ideal spot: a 20-acre parcel of land in the Adirondack mountains, where she built the cozy, primitive log cabin that became her permanent home. Miles from the nearest town, LaBastille had to depend on her wits, ingenuity, and the help of generous neighbors for her survival. In precise, poetic language, she chronicles her adventures on Black Bear Lake, capturing the power of the landscape, the rhythms of the changing seasons, and the beauty of nature’s many creatures. Most of all, she captures the struggle to balance her need for companionship and love with her desire for independence and solitude. Woodswoman is not simply a book about living in the wilderness, it is a book about living that contains a lesson for us all.

Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

LaBastille, Anne

Sports & Outdoors

Penguin??Books

Beyond Black Bear Lake

The author describes her cabin deep in the Adirondacks and her exploration of the lake and wilderness around it and shares her thoughts on nature, environmental concerns, and her newfound love

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Twenty-five years ago, Anne LaBastille became fascinated by a flightless diving bird found only in the highlands of Guatemala. From then on, the noted ecologist--known affectionately as Mama Poc--documented the fate of the giant grebe and the once-pristine Lake Atitlan that sustained it. Photographs.

Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

“This is the first careful account I have ever read of the death of one of the myriad types of creation. It covers the last twenty years not of an individual life but of a form of life. These marvelous birds deserve at the very least an obituary, and Anne LaBastille has given them a fine and moving one.” ―Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Every day some species of plant or animal on our planet becomes extinct. In Mama Poc, the bestselling author of Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake relates her own attempts to halt the decline of a single species of bird found only in Guatemala. The giant grebe, a flightless bird living on mile-deep Lake Atitlan, came to LaBastille’s attention in 1964. Her population count revealed that a mere eighty-two birds remained. Over the course of twenty-five years, Anne LaBastille made the cause of the giant grebe her own. This is the story of her life in Guatemala, observing the birds and working to reclaim their habitat and―against odds that turned out to be overwhelming―give them a future.

W.W.Norton&Company

"If you’re looking for a real declaration of independence, and a deeper social experiment, try a woman living alone in the Adirondacks for decades." ―Megan Mayhew Bergman, Guardian
Anne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her best-selling book Woodswoman, tracked her down; land developers arrived; there was air and noise pollution and the damages of acid rain.
Woodswoman II is the story of the author's decision to retreat farther, a half-mile behind her main cabin, and build a tiny cabin―fashioned after the one in Thoreau's Walden―in which she could write and contemplate. In this book (originally published under the title Beyond Black Bear Lake) she writes movingly of her life with two German shepherds as companions, of a sustaining relationship with a man as independent as herself, and her renewed bond with nature.

Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake

The award-winning conservationist and ecological consultant recounts her assignments and adventures in various parts of the world and her efforts to protect our forests, watersheds, soils, landscapes, and wildlife from humankind and its expanding technology

Assignment: Wildlife

Business & Money

Dutton Adult

Woodswoman

The ecologist author recounts the circumstances, conditions, and rewards of her life in an isolated log cabin in New York State's Adirondack wilderness

Nature & Ecology

Plume

The ecologist author recounts the circumstances, conditions, and rewards of her life in an isolated log cabin in New York State's Adirondack wilderness

E.P.Dutton

Woodswoman: A Young ecologist's life in the log cabin she built herself in the Adirondack Wilderness

Dutton

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Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness

Beyond Black Bear Lake

Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species

Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species

Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake

Assignment: Wildlife

Woodswoman

Woodswoman

Woodswoman

Woodswoman: A Young ecologist's life in the log cabin she built herself in the Adirondack Wilderness