Jack Walker Press

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Call for submissions: The XYZs of exclusion and the other

Jack Walker Press seeks artful first-person essays up to 4000 words for an anthology that explores the quest for inclusiveness and the effects of the creation of “the other.” Can individuals who come together with shared histories and culture celebrate that richness without fostering alienation? What happens to the other? How do we move away …

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Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage Departures Series, 2014, originally published by Pantheon Books (1980), 288p.   At first pass, Tracks sounds like an Australian version of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild— but with camels: Young woman traverses wild lands in a bid for …

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David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, By Tom Turner, with a foreword by Bill McKibben. University of California Press, 2015. 308 pages.   David Brower was instrumental in saving many US lands from ruination, including: Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument, a free-flowing river in the Grand Canyon, Redwood National park, North Cascades …

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