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Nature writer, 1956-
Award-winning author Gary Ferguson has written for a variety of national publications, including Vanity Fair and the Chicago Tribune, and is the author of twenty-six books on nature and science. His memoir, The Carry Home, which the Los Angeles Times called “gorgeous, with beauty on every page,” was awarded “Best Nature book of the Year” by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Gary is the co-founder of Full Ecology, with his wife, social scientists Mary M. Clare.

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	The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World 4.12 avg rating — 1,242 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson (Goodreads Author), Gary Ferguson (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 830 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness 4.32 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West 4.04 avg rating — 228 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild 4.20 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson (Goodreads Author), Jane Sunderland (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year 4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking Down the Wild: A Journey Through The Yellowstone Rockies 3.96 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind 3.54 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West 4.16 avg rating — 41 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)

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Habits of the Heart, With a New Preface: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

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“The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.”
― Gary Ferguson, Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone

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“The most important thing,” he said, “is to be present in the face of fear.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

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“Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong,” she recited. “Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn’t mean much.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

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Welk boek gaan we in mei 2021 lezen? (Nominaties maandboek mei 2021: Wildernis (dus bijv een boek over een hike, een (natuur)ramp oid))

De acht bergen van Paolo Cognetti - 239 pagina's

21 votes, 19.8%

Het zoutpad van Raynor Winn - 320 pagina's

16 votes, 15.1%

Een leven op onze planeet van David Attenborough - 272 pagina's

12 votes, 11.3%

De Wildernis in van Jon Krakauer - 284 pagina's

9 votes, 8.5%

Wild: over jezelf verliezen, terugvinden en 1700 kilometer hiken van Cheryl Strayed - 381 pagina's

7 votes, 6.6%

Greenwood van Michael Christie - 480 pagina's

6 votes, 5.7%

Terug in Amerika van Bill Bryson - 301 pagina's

6 votes, 5.7%

Dor van Neal Shusterman - 453 pagina's

5 votes, 4.7%

De uitvinder van de natuur: het avontuurlijke leven van Alexander von Humboldt van Andrea Wulf - 572 pagina's

4 votes, 3.8%

De Wadden: een geschiedenis van Mathijs Deen - 336 pagina's

4 votes, 3.8%

De Olifantenfluisteraar van Lawrence Anthony - 350 pagina's

4 votes, 3.8%

De wilde stilte van Raynor Winn - 318 pagina's

3 votes, 2.8%

Mijn leven in de wildernis van Miriam Lancewood - 407 pagina's

2 votes, 1.9%

Al het moois is niet verloren van Danielle Younge-Ullman - 319 pagina's

2 votes, 1.9%

Schemervluchten van Helen Macdonald - 304 pagina's

2 votes, 1.9%

Het hart van de zee, de tragedie van een walvisvaarder van Nathaniel Philbrick - 317 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

Beren op de weg van Gijs van Middelkoop - 224 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

Reis door de Grote Leegte van Bart de Haas - 277 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

De acht grote lessen van de natuur van Gary Ferguson - 237 pagina's

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De oude wegen: een voetreis van Robert Macfarlane - 464 pagina's

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