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William
H. Reid
Bill Reid has done almost everything
except play golf and sing. He once built runways in
England and Germany. Then, he worked as an engineer on
Apollo, the Titan missile and Skylab. Easily bored, he
went off to Colorado as they were done and got a Ph.D. in
biology. For years he was a professor in Texas, then
worked at the National Lab where we once made plutonium.
Now he coordinates research at six National Parks in the
Southwest. Along the way he's visited or worked in 48
states and 17 countries, including a stint at teaching in
Israel. Scuba diving, hiking, and rock climbing have been
part of the game. His first concern is, "Are we
helping the kids? Are they growing up with sharp,
questioning, self-assured minds?"
North of Nowhere
genre: Young
Adult: adventure
Darren and Carrie are real trouble-makers, the sort of
kids that parents would like to ship off
somewhere...anywhere. Sent to Alaska for a corrective
wilderness adventure, they run off together and get lost
in the mountains. There, as winter arrives, they learn to
stay warm and feed themselves; they learn to survive.
There are hard lessons, but they receive some help and
training from Athabascan Indians, who have run off from
White Man's cities to learn their own ways. What they
learn boils down to this: True freedom comes from
acceptance of self responsibility. In the spring they
leave, encounter more perils, and reach civilization.
There, after being reunited with their parents, they make
a really unexpected decision.
http://www.puzzlesbyshar.com/adventurebooks/index.html
ISBN: 1-55313-076-6 (electronic)
ISBN: 1-55313-077-4 (paperback) Eagles
Watch
genre: Fantasy
When ecology professor Jack Rogers in the American
Southwest meets Native Americans the strange business
starts, and he struggles with what is real. Sent to Fawn
StarRising in Arizona by a Crow Elder, Frank Windsinger,
he attempts to tell her about the legal problems of the
healing place she has started. He becomes more involved as
she tells him stories of her dream visions, then learns
that a drug dealer named Dead Sage is threatening her,
even though he is in prison. The tension grows as weird
events pile up. There is a great battle during a heavy,
flooding thunderstorm. As they, together, Jack realizes
that the drug dealer is trying to take Fawn's power, and
that he, Jack, was standing in his way. After the battle,
Fawn moves to a Nevada reservation to lay low and do her
healing. Jack goes back to his campus, knowing Dead Sage
is still alive.
http://www.puzzlesbyshar.com/adventurebooks/index.html
ISBN: 1-55313-194-0 (electronic)
ISBN: 1-55313-195-9 (paperback)
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