John Squadra's book of poetry, This Ecstasy, is courageous and beautiful. His poems explore with simplicity the truths of love and a spiritual life. Some poems are very erotic. Some poems expose the truths of life we all share. What I love most about this collection is that John is real and honest. I never feel, as I do with many poetry collections, that he is trying to be poetic, that he is trying to be anything. These are pure expressions from a tender heart.

This Ecstasy

Literature & Fiction

Squadra, John

Poetry

Heron Dance Press

In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. In Sleeping Island, Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for people met along the way. His respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life, and his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work.

Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North (First Edition)

Travel

Prentice G Downes

Canada

Walt Whitman was indeed a wild soul. His poetry expresses an earthy sensuality out of sync with the industrial times he lived in. His love for wild nature and for the sensual experiences of life is heard in every poem. Editor, Howard Nelson, provides an insightful introduction, shedding light on Walt Whitman's life. This carefully selected collection of poems alongside the beauty of Roderick MacIver's watercolor art creates a grand tribute to this beautiful soul.

Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

This second edition has a new cover, trim size and page count. Living with love and gratitude is at the center of the well-lived life. Heron Dance celebrates the open heart and the beauty and mystery that surround us with this book of poetry, book and interview excerpts. Included are 48 watercolors by Rod MacIver and selections from the written works of Helen Keller, Rachel Naomi Remen, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Einstein, Pablo Casals, Joseph Campbell, Dostoevsky, and Henry Miller, among many others. Introduction by Heron Dance editor Ann O'Shaughnessy.

Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude

In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, has worked on his account of the journey for fifty years. It is a powerful book of survival and awakening - a physical and spiritual odyssey. A Death on the Barrens, was originally published in 1996. This revised Heron Dance Press edition contains Roderick MacIver watercolors.

A Death on the Barrens

Science & Math

Grinnell, George

Biological Sciences

Forest Under My Fingernails is a beautifully written book about a 267-mile, 33-day backpacking trip. At different times gently introspective, humorous, and thought-provoking, this book explores the changes we go through as we gradually immerse ourselves in the deep woods, and the different rhythms we experience there. Walt's work is relatively unknown, but we regard him as one of the most eloquent nature authors and poets writing today. We're proud to carry his book.

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on Vermont's Long Trail

McLaughlin, Walt

Nature & Ecology

True North

In 1929, at the age of 24, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador to work as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission. In 1933 he wrote True North about his experiences in the northern wilderness, living and working with trappers, Indians and with the nurse he met and married in a remote community. The book describes the hard work and severe conditions, along with the joy and friendship he and his wife experienced.

Merrick, Elliot

John Squadra's book of poetry, This Ecstasy, is courageous and beautiful. His poems explore with simplicity the truths of love and a spiritual life. Some poems are very erotic. Some poems expose the truths of life we all share. What I love most about this collection is that John is real and honest. I never feel, as I do with many poetry collections, that he is trying to be poetic, that he is trying to be anything. These are pure expressions from a tender heart.

United States

Walt Whitman was indeed a wild soul. His poetry expresses an earthy sensuality out of sync with the industrial times he lived in. His love for wild nature and for the sensual experiences of life is heard in every poem. Editor, Howard Nelson, provides an insightful introduction, shedding light on Walt Whitman's life. This carefully selected collection of poems alongside the beauty of Roderick MacIver's watercolor art creates a grand tribute to this beautiful soul.

WHITMAN, WALT

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Forest Under My Fingernails is a beautifully written book about a 267 mile, 33 day backpacking trip. At different times gently introspective, humorous, and thought-provoking, this book explores the changes we go through as we gradually immerse ourselves in the deep woods, and the different rhythms we experience there. Walt's work is relatively unknown, but we regard him as one of the most eloquent nature authors and poets writing today.

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on the Long Trail

History

Americas

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This Ecstasy

Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North (First Edition)

Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude

A Death on the Barrens

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on Vermont's Long Trail

True North

This Ecstasy

Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on the Long Trail