A Conservationist Manifesto

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Quaker Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically from southern Indiana to the Boundary Waters Wilderness and culturally from the Bible to billboards, Sanders extends the visions of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson to our own day.

Indiana University Press 2009 256 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Earth Works

Selected Essays

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
In the hands of Quaker writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays--nine never before collected--Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology of consumerism, and the meaning of sustainability. Throughout, he asks perennial questions: What is a good life? How do family and culture shape a person's character? How should we treat one another and the Earth? What is our role in the cosmos?

Indiana 2012 355 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Hunting For Hope

A Father's Journeys

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
The book begins with a hiking trip in the Rockies meant to ease the strife between the author and his teenage son. On their first day, Jesse lashes out: " You look at any car, and all you think is pollution, traffic, roadside crap. You say fast food's poisoning our bodies and TV's poisoning our minds....You make me feel the planet's dying, and people are to blame, and nothing can be done about it. There's no room for hope. Maybe you can get along without hope, but I can't." Sanders sets out to accumulate, in a narrative threaded with the moving remainder of the father-son trip, his own reasons for facing the future with hope.

Beacon Press 1998 200 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

A Private History Of Awe

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
When Quaker Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe-"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence.

North Point Press 2006 322 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

A Private History Of Awe

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
When Quaker Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe-"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence.

North Point Press 2007 322 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)