A Finger of Land on an Old Man's Hand - de Berge, Earl Vincent
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Chronicles in words and photographs the 1962-64 adventures of young men inspired by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch's book, "The Forgotten Peninsula," about Baja California (1961). Then a sparsely populated raw wilderness, Baja proved a formidable challenge to men and equipment within its mountainous, sometimes lush, sometimes barren, desert environments, spectacular geology and complex ecologies bracketed by oceans. They enjoyed encounters with wild animals; found bountiful places to hunt and fish; met frontier families of the kindest sort; experienced Pacific storms, and love in a frontier…mehr

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Chronicles in words and photographs the 1962-64 adventures of young men inspired by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch's book, "The Forgotten Peninsula," about Baja California (1961). Then a sparsely populated raw wilderness, Baja proved a formidable challenge to men and equipment within its mountainous, sometimes lush, sometimes barren, desert environments, spectacular geology and complex ecologies bracketed by oceans. They enjoyed encounters with wild animals; found bountiful places to hunt and fish; met frontier families of the kindest sort; experienced Pacific storms, and love in a frontier village; met gold prospectors, hermits and one-of-a-kind characters. They encountered brigands and fools; had life-threatening events; found gold nuggets and rescued lost team members. Plant photography was among the author's interests, only partially foiled by wind-blown sand fouling his camera lens. Most important, they learned about themselves and their relations with nature and God -- finding their own answers or clarifying what they hoped to better understand. Major contributions to this book were provided by Earl's life-long friend Mark Winheld.
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An Arizona native, Earl is a poet and photographer, writing eclectically on everything from the environment to gold mining camps, time, war, poverty, shadows, sexuality, friendship, hermits, children, hope, aging, coyotes, hawks, brigands, fools, danger and death. A social scientist by training, he founded Behavior Research Center, Inc. in 1965, where he created and was Editor of the respected and widely published Rocky Mountain Poll for 35 years. Earl's photographs, logbooks and essays serve as foundations for his prose and poems. Big Ears Jack and Friends is a charming series of short stories featuring animals and plants of the Sonoran Desert for young readers.Earl has published 3 collections of poems, the most recent is Wind in the Elephant Tree, following Swans to Guide Me and Allegro to Life, both published in 2022. A Finger of Land on An Old Man's Hand is a fascinating account, laced with his poetry and photos, of his adventures as a young man in the Sonoran deserts of Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona. Earl is currently writing a biography of an iconoclastic poet, while continuing to write new poems. Earl and his wife Suzanne split their time between Arizona and Guatemala where they founded the non-profit www.SeedsforaFuture.org which provides training to rural women with limited financial resources on how to improve family access to adequate food and nutrition, via home gardens and raising small animals for protein.