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At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her—one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog—and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.
The journey began as a desperate escape from urban isolation, heartbreak, and despair, but became an adventure beyond imagining. Chronicling their colorful escapade, Almost Anywhere explores the courage, cowardice, and heroics that live in all of us, as well as the life of nature and the nature of life.
This eloquent and accessible memoir is at once an immersion in the pain of losing someone particularly close and especially young and a healing journey of a broken life given over to the whimsy and humor of living on the road.
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Eric Hoffer Award
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"Outstanding, wry, heart-wrenching and healing. Those words describe Almost Anywhere, which hits the bull’s-eye as a cross between Wild and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. Krista’s unique voice will draw you in and take you on journey to the intersection of unfathomable grief and the healing power of wanderlust." —Michelle Theall, author of Teaching the Cat to Sit
"Brave, beautiful, and utterly captivating, Almost Anywhere breaks your heart and puts it back together again on a long and often arduous road trip across an America, where the uncertain future is always just beyond the horizon and the immutable past rushes at you without remorse. Measuring the sharpness of loss against the hugeness of life, Krista Schlyer has found her way, page by page, to a rare state of grace. An amazing book." —William Souder, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
"This book is an American map. . . . If you want to feel a journey at skin level all the way to the heart, this is your route." —Craig Childs, award-winning author of House of Rain
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The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war.
But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall helps readers understand all that is at stake.
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Winner of: National Outdoor Book Award, Ansel Adams Award, Southwest Book of the Year, Eric Hoffer Award, New Mexico Book Award, “Best of the Best” designation by the American Library Association.
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“In these embattled times, every corner of the planet needs defenders. With Continental Divide, Krista Schlyer, wielding pen and camera with equal grace, takes her place as one of the staunchest advocates of the battered, contested, and sublimely beautiful territory we know as the US-Mexico borderlands.”--William deBuys, author, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
“Krista Schlyer’s deeply informative and visually head-turning ode to the rich borderland ecosystems being undone in the mad―in every sense of the word―rush to build a wall between one side of a line in the sand and the other. Should be required reading for any legislator with a hand in federal immigration policy.” —Brad Tyler ― Texas Observer Published On: 2013-07-03
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Incorporating seven years of photography and research, Krista Schlyer portrays life along the Anacostia River, a Washington, DC, waterway rich in history and biodiversity that nonetheless lingered for years in obscurity and neglect in our nation’s capital–a reality that has earned it the nickname the forgotten river. River of Redemption offers an experience of the Anacostia that reveals its eons of natural history, centuries of destruction, and decades of restoration efforts. Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s classic book, A Sand County Almanac, Krista Schlyer evokes a consciousness of time and place, taking readers through the seasons in the watershed as well as through the river’s complex history and ecology.
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National Outdoor Book Award winner
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"Krista Schyler has woven her way into the soul of the Anacostia with poetic prowess. . . . a symphony of beauty through words and photos. As the river becomes cleaner and sparks more recreation on the water and development on the waterfront, it behooves us to protect the ecological system that has given birth there. Krista has showered the Anacostia with a sense of wonder as she pays tribute to the river of redemption."--Brenda Lee Richardson, Director, Earth Conservation Corps Monique Johnson Anacostia River Center--Brenda Lee Richardson
"Krista Schlyer rediscovers a treasure in our nation's capital, the Anacostia River. A gifted story teller and photographer, she leads us on a moving expedition of human failure and the miracle of nature's renewal." --Tommy Wells, Director, Department of Energy and Environment
--Tommy Wells, former District of Columbia City Council Member and Director of the DC Department of Energy and the Environment.
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