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Earthkeeping

love notes to tough times

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The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.

In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world’s anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, Saunders writes with a deep connection to the natural world and his signature humane zest for life. Lovingly illustrated with Saunders’s own drawings, the result is a joyful, personal, and deeply attentive stroll through an enchanted land of blue and green.

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Gary Saunders

Gary Saunders is a forester, painter, educator, and writer. Born in Clarkes Head, Newfoundland, Saunders worked as a forester in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, along the way studying fine arts at the Ontario College of Art and Mount Allison University. A contributor to periodicals such as Atlantic Advocate, Saltscapes, Canadian Geographic, and Canadian Living, Saunders is the author of twelve works of non-fiction including Earthkeeping, Alder Music, and My Life With Trees (winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for Non- Fiction). He lives in Clifton, Nova Scotia.
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 Forward from Tom Dawe, St. John’s Poet Laureate from 2010-13. 1 $0.10

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 The Introduction reflects on nature from a child’s perspective and the lessons to be learned. 3 $0.30

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 Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … 19 $1.90

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 Part Two contains the sections: Peeper Spring, Cornsequences, Chipmunk Penance, Nova Scotia’s 2003 Floods, A Calendar of Roadside Flowers, Tough Little Trees of the Fringe, Leaf Thief I and Leaf … 37 $3.70

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 Part Three contains the sections: The Lovely Duckling, Turtle Tale, So Excellent a Fish: Capelin, Gift from the Sky, God’s Dead Dog & Other Roadkills, Caribou Caper, COVID-19 Moment, and … 43 $4.30

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 Part Four contains the sections: Spider Love, Of Mayflies & Millennia,Potato Bug Waltz, The Hornet Dilemma, Bumblebee Hotel, Ticked!. Topics discussed include spiders, the lifespan of … 26 $2.60

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 Part Five contains the sections: Down to Earth, A Salmon for Supper, Of Seals and Cod and Us, Oatmeal Shenanigans, Part Surgeon, Part Seamstress: A Fly-Tying Memoir, Dike-Land Rambles, Chaga … 51 $5.10

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 Part Six contains the sections: This Old House: Honeymoon & After, Getting to Know You, Old House, Window Talk, Gone to a Better Place: A Wood Stove Memoir, Winter Woodchuck Woes, Fire from … 45 $4.50

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 Part Seven contains the sections: Two Rural Dreams, Bonavista Traverse, Sailing Bloody Reach, Sable Island: Ultimate Shunpiking, Sky Stone, and Plastic Ocean Blues. Topics discussed include … 34 $3.40

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 Part Eight contains the sections: Neil Van Nostrand, Ecologist, Hezekiah and the Pine, A Rose for Mary Matilda, Remembering Lucy and Helen, Lloyd S. Hawboldt, and Bug Man. These stories are about … 31 $3.10

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 The Afterword: Mars, Anyone?. 7 $0.70