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Circling Home

Lane, John
Circling Home
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont. He, his wife, and two stepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson's Fork Creek. Soon after settling in, Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map. Centering an old, chipped saucer over his home, he traced a circle one mi...

CHF 34.90

Rodney, the Ranger (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Lane, John V. / Goss, John
Rodney, the Ranger (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
A sturdy boy in homespun, a lad of nearly fourteen years, whose eyes were clear and gray and whose face was resolute and honest, led his little sister by the hand, for she was small and the road was rough. "We'll rest, 'Omi, when we come to the big tree. Are you cold? " he asked, for there was the chill of March in the wind, though the sun lay very warm in the sheltered places.

CHF 27.90

The Speakers of the House of Commons from the Ealiest Tim...

Lane, John / Dasent, Arthur Irwin
The Speakers of the House of Commons from the Ealiest Times to the Present Day ... & a Brief Record of the Principal Constitutional Changes During Seven Centuries
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

CHF 70.00

Chattooga

Lane, John
Chattooga
Before the novel and the film "Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers. In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river's torrents that pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border. Because of "Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain's Mississippi-...

CHF 46.50

The Woods Stretched for Miles

Lane, John
The Woods Stretched for Miles
From the savannas of south Florida through the hardwood uplands of Mississippi to the high mountains of Tennessee, this anthology gathers essays about Southern landscape and nature from 18 writers with ties to the region.

CHF 34.90

Waist Deep in Black Water

Lane, John
Waist Deep in Black Water
John Lane has scaled a granite dome in the Suriname rain forest and waded past cottonmouths in the heart of a Florida cypress swamp. He has shadowed crocodiles in a Yucatan mangrove thicket and paddled the rapids of North Carolina's Tuckaseegee River in search of a drowned kayaker. Waist Deep in Black Water offers a collection of Lane's own writings that range from wilderness exploration, to conservation issues, to explorations of family histo...

CHF 38.90

Waist Deep in Black Water

Lane, John
Waist Deep in Black Water
John Lane has scaled a granite dome in the suriname rain forest and waded past cottonmouths in the heart of a Florida cypress swamp. He has shadowed crocodiles in a Yucatan mangrove thicket and paddled the rapids of North Carolina's Tuckaseegee River in search of a drowned kayaker. "Waist Deep in Black Water offers a collection of Lane's writings on topics such as wilderness exploration, conversation, and family history.

CHF 36.50

Timeless Beauty

Lane, John
Timeless Beauty
Once people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen and musicians, masons and poets, painters and dancers simply did not know how to make an ugly thing, they could not close their hearts to the light of heaven. For them--countless numbers of them--beauty was as necessary as the air they breathed. It gave dignity...

CHF 18.50

Return Fare

Lane, John
Return Fare
Three printings in three months - a shocking and powerful novel in the tradition of classic realism. The story of a young teenager from the Okanagan's descent into the nightmarish world of Californian migrant workers.

CHF 9.90