Books By Ted Kerasote

Buy Amazon Buy Barnes & Noble	Out There In the Wild in a Wired Age -- WINNER -- NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD 2004 Who hasn't wanted to get away from cell phones, e-mail, roads, and traffic? And what better place to escape our wired world than the far northwestern corner of Canada's northwest territories and a river that flows through uninhabited country, 400 miles to the Arctic Ocean. But what if your canoeing partner brings along a satellite phone to use in case of an emergency? And, struck by the novelty of anywhere-on-earth communication, he proceeds to use the phone to check in with his law office, his wife, kids, sisters, father, and friends? Ted Kerasote describes just such a situation as he journeys down the Horton River through the largest, ice-free, roadless area left on Earth, a stunning wilderness of grizzly bears, caribou, and migrating birds. Between navigating rapids, slipping around musk ox and grizzlies, and being pinned down by Arctic storms, the two friends prod each other into a finer understanding of love, marriage, parenting, and the meaning of solitude in an increasingly wired world. Contrasting his own experiences with those of the region's earliest explorers-Sir John Franklin and Vilhjalmur Stefansson-Kerasote provides a compelling and humorous take on how travelers from any age adjust to being away from their civilizations and how getting "out there" has inevitably changed but has also remained the same-especially if you shut off the phone. "Out There does a masterful job of debating the dichotomy of adventure travel in a wired world."-Yvon Chouinard, cofounder of Patagonia, Inc. "Kerasote has thought deeply about the meaning of remoteness and solitude in an age strangling from its cyberwires."-Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way, Outside "Out There is far, far more than a macho 'there-we-were' adventure story. It's a sly, funny, wise look at a world beyond the walls that we erect to keep ourselves safe from the wilderness and to keep the wilderness safe from us. Ted Kerasote is a fine literary companion-poetic, honest and observant."-Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. A gallery of photos from the Horton River can found at: http://www.blazingpaddles.ca/arctic_canoeing/.
Buy Amazon Buy Barnes & Noble	Bloodties Nature, Culture, and the Hunt For all readers who are perplexed over humanity's proper relationship to animals, Ted Kerasote's intriguing exploration of the ancient human urge to hunt will dramatize the issues that fuel this controversial debate. Living with Inuit in Greenland and accompanying wealthy trophy hunters, Kerasote describes two very opposite poles of the hunting world. He then examines his own relationship with the totemic animal of his homeplace, elk, and engages America's leading animal-rightist, Wayne Pacelle, from The Fund For Animals, in a vivid dialogue about the ethics of taking life. Scrupulously balanced, and with a rigorous enquiry into the ecological consequences of eating food produced by agri-business, Bloodties remains the definitive work on our evolving relationship to the nonhuman world. "The world is lucky to have this book."-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs in The Los Angeles Times Book Review. "The power of Bloodties lies in the way it forces the reader to feel the inescapable tragedy of being both part of nature and outside of it, of having to participate in the violence of sustaining life and yet having to be conscious of the pain inevitably inflicted."-Christopher Lehman-Haupt, The New York Times "Sad and strange, haunting and beautiful, Bloodties contains perhaps all the honesty and strength we can stand."-Rick Bass, author of The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness Bloodties should be read by everyone who hunts, so they can understand the real meaning of their often degraded activity, and by everyone who doesn't, so they can glimpse some of the meaning yet remaining in this oldest human pursuit."-Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Buy Amazon Buy Barnes & Noble	Heart of Home People, Wildlife, Place Is home a place, a state of mind, or a way of participating in the natural world? Heart of Home makes the case for all three. These thoughtful and compelling essays showcase Ted Kerasote at his best, probing the evolving relationship between humans and nature. Whether fly-fishing for trout, coming eye-to-eye with coyotes, gauging the costs of logging, agriculture and hunting, or recounting the historic meeting between the fathers of American conservation, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, Kerasote eloquently illuminates an engrossing central theme: how we stay connected to Earth's cycles of life and death through mindful participation. "Beautifully written, these essays will inspire all who read them to reconsider their connection with nature."-Publishers Weekly "Ted Kerasote belongs to that tradition of thoughtful writers whose subject is nature and how we relate to it."-C.P. Crow, The New York Times Book Review "Heart of Home expands our thinking as to our authentic ties to animals and what the appropriate role of the hunter might be."-Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge. "At once sensible and sensitive, by turns subtly humorous and profoundly moving, Ted Kerasote once again works his particular kind of earth-magic. A warning: The heart he breaks may be your own."-Mary Zeiss Stange, director of women's studies, Skidmore College, and author of Woman the Hunter .
Buy Online	Navigations The Future of Our Natural Lands Navigations, Ted Kerasote's first book, introduces the themes that occupy much of his later work: an intimate view into the lives of wild animals; the friendships that form when people depend upon each other in wild places; and a wry look at our own failings. Crossing the length of the western hemisphere, from the high Arctic to the high Andes, Kerasote takes readers back to a time when adventure travel was being born   when an entire generation put on their backpacks and, without Lonely Planet guides or Google, set off to see what they could find.
Buy Amazon Buy Barnes & Noble	Return of the Wild The Future of Our Natural Lands Why should we care about wildlands and designated wilderness areas? Why do places like the Adirondacks, the everglades, the California desert, and the millions of acres of unprotected roadless areas, from the tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the forests of Appalachia, matter? In contributions newly written for this volume, a cast of impressive writers and thinkers describes how the health of wildlands is intimately connected to the health of society, what currently threatens these places, and how we can conserve more of them. Introduced and edited by Ted Kerasote with contributions from: Vine Deloria, Jr., Jack Turner, Michael Soulé, Todd Wilkinson, Richard Nelson, and others.