by Suzanne McMinn (2013)
"Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep--and no pizza delivery"--Amazon.com.
Elspeth Huxley
Huxley has recorded her memories of the years after *The Flame Trees of Thika* and *The Mottled Lizard*. Readers learn about her return to Kenya after eight years, the people and places she found, and about her visit in 1983. 8-page photo insert.
Fred First
A collection of essays reflecting on the author's life and sense of place along Goose Creek in Floyd County, Virginia. The book is a companion to First's blog Fragments from Floyd.
Lauren St John
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, 11-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably. This memoir captures the beauty and danger of life in the African bush. At the height of the war, Lauren rides through the wilderness on her horse, Morning Star, encountering lions, crocodiles, snakes, vicious ostriches, and mad cows. The constant threat of ruthless guerrillas prowling the land underscores everything, making each day more dangerous, vivid, and prized than the last.--From publisher description.
Billy D. Higgins
"A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas tells the story of Peter Caulder, a free African American settler in the Arkansas Territory. After serving as a rifleman in the War of 1812, Caulder established a community of free-born African Americans in northern Arkansas and was largely accepted by his white neighbors until an 1859 expulsion law forced the community to flee the state and settle in Missouri." "Like many frontier people, Peter Caulder was unschooled and signed his name only with a mark. To document such a man's life and to determine how he thrived within a slave society and came to join a free black backwoods community, Billy Higgins has interwoven oft-neglected primary sources from around the country - many of which are reproduced here. Through the information revealed in censuses, tax records, sutler's account books, army returns, folk stories, land warrants, traveler's journals, and newspaper notices, a fascinating account of Caulder, his family, his friends, and his community has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.