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At a time when wild rivers are imperilled, Tales of the River presents a timely collection of river literature from twenty-one authors exploring our vital relationship with rivers and how they shape our lives. Featuring original writing by award winning authors, and exciting new voices in eco-literature, each writer draws on their wisdom, compassion, and ecological consciousness to create a range of dramatic and timely stories. The stories are grouped by eco-regions, showing that connections with rivers also exist across space. The book asks: How do we stop the terrible decline of our wild rivers? We protect what we love, by standing together on the bank of a river.

Donna daydreams of pulling up stakes and starting a new life, never imagining a chance encounter with a new man will lead to a wild, impetuous decision that catapults her on a soul-changing journey. Living in the Amazon rainforest, a host of curious jungle creatures visit her jungle shack, she narrowly dodges disaster on a raging river, and finds herself lost in a tropical swamp. Struck down by a tormenting tropical disease, and suffering from severe culture shock, she then embarks on a scientific field trip that alters the course of her life. Tested mentally, physically and spiritually, it is hard for Donna to feel lost in the wilderness when pure joy pounds in her heart and she discovers the way to live her one precious life. Despite being accosted by angry ants and battered by inclement weather, she works from a tree platform where she captures rare moments in the lives of wild animals, befriends a water-loving agouti rat, and forms a special bond with a tree, which persuades her it was her wild self who coerced her to travel over ten thousand miles so it could unleash itself.Written with laugh-out-loud humour and deep compassion, Donna poignantly captures the isolation, challenges, and true beauty of the rainforest where she literally rises above the limitations of her once modern life.

Not many of us can just pack up and take off, but Donna Mulvenna found the ideal solution--to travel the world, one farm at a time.In her own incomparable writing style, packed with humour and colourful characters, Donna retells amusing stories of eccentric clients and the wonderfully weird and often bizarre world she suddenly found herself immersed in.From heavy horse work on the Isle of Skye to pampered pooches in the Loire Valley in France and snorkelling with dogs on Norfolk Island in the Pacific, Donna set a frantic pace which formed the basis of a successful enterprise.Inside find author tips detailing how you too can travel the world one farm at a time.

Despite being home to the largest snakes, biggest rodents and most ferocious mosquitoes in the world, Donna Mulvenna falls in love with French Guiana, taking readers on a humorous, chaotic and entertaining journey that can only result in a severe case of wanderlust. French Guiana might not be the first place you think of when you pick a travel destination. It probably wouldn't even be the first place in South America. But it is a land of pristine rain forests and wild nature that offers more adventure and deadly infectious diseases than your average two week holiday in Spain could ever throw at you.In this wittily written fact-filled book, full of the joy of life and travel, Donna tells of an exciting journey to a strange and mysterious land, where she dodged a multitude of life-threatening infectious diseases and death by giant river monsters, and how she retained her sense of humour when many people would have lost theirs in the first sweltering night with a broken air conditioning unit.French Guiana unlocked a hidden spirit within her. Once it was there she knew she would never lose it. Inside this book you will get those same feelings, as you allow yourself to be immersed in one of the most unusual countries in the world.

Some believe the natural world is our real home. The place where we came from. Could the eternal pull we feel toward the golden warmth of a rising sun, the tumbling waves of the ocean, or the soothing sound of birdsong, be nature?s way of calling us home? Wildlife communicates through sounds and sights, scents and colours, emotion and more. There is a mystery to wildlife we are at a loss to explain, a complexity challenging to describe, and an experience impossible to convey. All Things Breathe Alike is a collection of nine separate essays written by three wildlife enthusiasts celebrating what is not yet lost. It is a crusade by passionate conservationists hoping to shed light on the ever-increasing problem of habitat loss and the many other pressing threats to the natural world. It is a gathering of friends standing together to try and make a difference in this world.

The Awe of Nature is a thoughtful narrative that takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the wonders of the Amazon rainforest to the terror of forest fires in northern Saskatchewan.Written in the same easy-to-connect-with style of Wild Roots - Coming Alive in the French Amazon, The Awe of Nature is rich with touching and inspiring anecdotes collected from authors across ages, continents, and cultures, which remind us that while the world has changed, the path toward a fulfilling and joyful life has not.Gazing across an ocean of pristine rainforest, staring into the eyes of a wild crab dog, or hiking in the Sierra Nevada: These experiences have the power to detach us from the mundane concerns and consumer mentality that clutter our daily lives; and inspire us to become better versions of ourselves.Awe engenders humility and a gratitude for life. Once we allow ourselves to truly experience that, it is ours forever. We need only shut our eyes and tune into its power to gain a sense of our own awesomeness--the freedom to simply be.

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