{"product_id":"anne-labastille-a-biography-of-the-woodswoman","title":"Anne LaBastille: A Biography of the Woodswoman","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Penny Harr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAward-winning wildlife ecologist and bestselling author Anne LaBastille was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerhaps best known for her seminal wilderness book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoodswoman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which recounts her years spent living in a remote Adirondacks cabin and which inspired countless women to shun societal dictates and pursue their passions, LaBastille railed against bureaucracy and patriarchy to become a powerful figure in environmentalism. \u003cem\u003eAnne LaBastille\u003c\/em\u003e is the first ever biography of this powerful and polarizing woman who dedicated her life to preserving the natural world.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1933, LaBastille was raised in a time when women largely stayed at home. She was determined to become a wildlife ecologist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWhen urged to conduct research in a lab while completing her master’s degree in wildlife management at Colorado State University, she insisted that the best way to study big game – the subject of her thesis – was out in the field. \u003cspan\u003eAfter receiving her Ph.D. from Cornell University, LaBastille traveled the world working for the betterment of the environment and its natural inhabitants, especially at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala where she tried for decades to save the giant pied-billed grebe from extinction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaBastille was also an insatiable writer, chronicling her time in Lake Atitlan and her conservation work around the world for publications such as \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic, Readers Digest, Outdoor Life\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAdirondack Life, \u003c\/em\u003eamong others. She was awarded the World Wildlife Fund Gold Medal, the Society of women Geographers Gold Medal, and Nature Educator of the Year from the Rodger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough personal interviews and archival research, Adirondack Experience interpreter and seventh-generation Adirondacker Penny Harr paints and in-depth portrait of LaBastille's personal and rich inner life including and beyond her career achievements, breathing life into a legend of wildlife conservation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e286 pages, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781493093809\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dennis Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44673482817624,"sku":"5472","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2736\/0311\/files\/annelabastille_pennybook.jpg?v=1788017580","url":"https:\/\/theadkxstore.com\/products\/anne-labastille-a-biography-of-the-woodswoman","provider":"The ADKX Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}