"Like In Our Time, which unifies its disparate contents through between-the-acts episodes drawn from Hemingway's war experiences, Running After Antelope strings its many-colored beads on a single narrative thread -...
A memoir of Melanie Carvell's journey from the agricultural village of Mott, North Dakota (population 732), to world duathlon and triathlon competitions, then a splendid career as a physical therapist, director of the Sanford Women's Health ...
Racing the Antelope "The human experience is populated by dreams and aspirations.
“Each new page [is] more spellbinding than the one before—this is surely one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read.”—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs When Bernd Heinrich decided to write a memoir ...
Inspired by the offbeat road stories of Hunter S. Thompson and Bill Bryson, among others, Gibbon resolved to follow Phish and their kite's tail of hundreds of thousands of followers on their 1999 summer tour.
Fagen, R. 1981. ... A cost to individuals with reduced vigilance in groups of Thomson's gazelles hunted by cheetahs. Anim. Behav. ... Anti-predator strategies of immature Thomson's gazelles: Hiding and the prone response. Anim. Behav.
With witty, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into the human problems we all confront, this is both a ramble through and celebration of the land we all love.
And yet we are in this thing together. For the rest of our lives. Not just for better or for worse, but for better AND for worse. That's what this book is about. The times that brought us together and the times we were falling apart.
Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.
Presents photograph illustrations and general information about the American pronghorn antelope by following a herd in Wyoming as it travels from the sagebrush desert in the spring to the high country in the summer, and back down again for ...