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  • Surrender

    The Call of the American West

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An American Journey

    In the spring of 1965, British novelist Ethel Mannin decided to see America "the hard way"—traveling by bus from New York to California and back. What she records in An American Journey is all too reminiscent of today's America: racial discrimination, economic inequality, environmental exploitation, and treatment of native Americans as second-class citizens. Her outsider's perspective provides an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greyhound

    A Memoir

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    **Finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismCombining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless**In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bitter Roots

    When fourteen-year-old Pauly Craig takes a swim in the Clark Fork River one summer day, he doesn’t expect to see a boy drown. Surrounded by everyday violence in his Montana town, Pauly is determined to prove himself, navigating the awkward fumbles of boyhood against a backdrop of strikes, gang fights, trainhopping, bootlegging, and the casualties of war.The setting of The Bitter Roots, Missoula, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Greyhound

    A Memoir

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposelessIn 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, she undertakes the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Greyhound (Unabridged)

    by Joanna Pocock ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers - Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz - who chronicled their own road trips across ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The 99% Invisible City

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  • Born to Walk

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  • The Iron Marshal

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