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Soleil Au Coeur: Sun In Your Heart, Judy Pfau Cochran

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Original work by Andrée Chedid.

Andrée Chedid, Rythmes Paris: Gallimard, 2003

Demain Dès L’Aube…: Tomorrow At Dawn. . ., Malick Guisse

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Victor Hugo Les Contemplations, 1856

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L’Amour Ii: Love Ii, Judy Pfau Cochran

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Original work by Andrée Chedid

Andrée Chedid, Rythmes>/i> Paris: Gallimard, 2003

Photograph, Charles O'Keefe

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Jen Hirt’S Collection Of Essays, Hear Me Ohio, Wins The 2020 Silver Prize From Foreword Reviews, The University Of Akron Press

News of The University of Akron Press

Jen Hirt’s collection of essays, Hear Me Ohio, has won the 2020 Silver prize from Foreword Reviews in the category of Adult Nonfiction, Essays. Foreword writes: “Hear Me Ohio is a collection of essays about leaving Ohio while always looking back at it from places as far and different as Idaho, to the familiar forest of an arboretum in Kentucky, to the Pennsylvania riverbanks of the Susquehanna River. Hirt writes about loss and discovery, but also horseradish and hold-ups, unicorns and spiders, chestnuts and dobsonflies, dogs and kayaks.”

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Lines Written Far From Home, John Smelcer

Appalachia

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Ornithologist, Francis Lunney

Appalachia

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Perception, Todd Davis

Appalachia

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Tundra Swans, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

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Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Francis Blessington

Appalachia

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In Yellowstone, Sofiul Azam

Appalachia

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A Peak Ahead: Reversing Roles In The Mountains, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: Blazing Ahead: Benton MacKaye, Myron Avery, and the Rivalry That Built the Appalachian Trail by Jeffrey H. Ryan. AMC’s Mountain Skills Manual: The Essential Hiking and Backpacking Guide by Christian Bisson and Jamie Hannon. AMC’s Best Day Hikes in the Catskills and Hudson Valley by Peter W. Kick. AMC’s Best Day Hikes Near Washington, D.C. by Beth Homicz and Annie Eddy. Go Take a Hike! Hiking tips and Outings for Seniors in Western Maine and the White Mountains by Allen Crabtree. Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls. Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard …

News And Notes

Appalachia

Rahawa Haile, Appalachian Trail hiker and first generation African-American citizen, interviewed by James Edward Mills. A trail staffer recounts building an Appalachian Mountain Club shelter at Speck Pond. An appreciation of White Mountain National Forest Supervisor Tom Wagner.

Research

Appalachia

Studies of the damage road salt does to waterways, by Judy Benson. Grizzy bears rebound, by Lisa Densmore Ballard.

Letters

Appalachia

A Massachusetts reader identifies Appalachia’s Summer/Fall 2017 cover shot as a 1930 photo of her family around a campfire. Another reader sends in an imagined story about the mystery cover photo. Dr. Charlotte Ryan writes that she identified strongly with the tragedy of Geraldine Largay, subject of a piece in Winter/Spring 2017, who died on the Appalachian Trail.

Alpina

Appalachia

Teams fail to climb K2 in winter 2017. American climber Conrad Anker suffers a heart attack on Lunag-Ri. Everest’s spring 2017 season brings 373 permitted climbers, including two women who make records: Uto Ibrahimi becomes the first woman from Albania to summit, and Tsang Yin Hung of Hong Kong sets a female speed record. Ueli Steck dies in a fall on Nuptse. In Memoriam: Royal Robbins, by Michael Wejchert. And more.

Accidents

Appalachia

Incidents include: a 26-year-old experienced hiker dies on Bondcliff on Christmas Eve; a new hiker struggles with his gear and calls for rescue; a man loses his way on icy Mount Lafayette. An excerpt from Accidents Editor Sandy Stott’s book Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains.

Backwaters: A Writing Mentor Surfaces, Jeff Debellis

Appalachia

trail crew, trail work, fishing, poetry, craft of writing, writer's notebook, reunion

How I Died Hiking: An Imagined Story That Could Happen To Anyone, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

Mountain guide Mike Cherim’s imagined story of how danger can creep up on anyone.

See One, Do One, Teach One: The Path Branches A Lot, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Navigating up the branching trails of Prairie Mountain in Alberta.

Supporting A Mountain As It Changes: People, Climate, And The Absence Of Trees, Caroline Ailanthus

Appalachia

A science writer shows how Monadnock’s landscape tells the story of climate change and calamity.

I'Ll Have The Usual: Mount Monadnock Always Delivers, Marty Carlock

Appalachia

A woman who knows Mount Monadnock as well as her own shoes celebrates the familiar.

The First Women On Katahdin: Was It A Race Or Merely An Exciting Phase?, William Geller

Appalachia

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Weakness In Numbers: How A Hiking Partner Can Be Dangerous, Ty Gagne

Appalachia

group dynamics, risk management, group hike, winter hiking, White Mountains, Franconia Ridge, team psychology, team behavior

Climbers Who Volunteer: Everest Climber And White Mountains Fixture Rick Wilcox Reflects, Erik Eisele, Joe Klementovich

Appalachia

Everest climber and White Mountain fixture Rick Wilcox reflects on his commitment to search-and-rescue in this tribute by Erik Eisele.

Tragedy At Skyline—September 17, 1967: One Who Was There Investigates, David Govatski

Appalachia

Fifty years after the worst accident in the history of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, David Govatski, who was there, went looking for the reason it happened.