Authors Who Got Their Start on MOTHER

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Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies is just one of the books published by a MOTHER contributor.
Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies is just one of the books published by a MOTHER contributor.
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Healing Plants by MOTHER contributor Ana Nez Heatherley
Healing Plants by MOTHER contributor Ana Nez Heatherley
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The Earth-Sheltered House by Malcolm Wells
The Earth-Sheltered House by Malcolm Wells

Publishers are snatching up our contributors right and left.

A couple of years back, MOTHER introduction readers to twin sisters and Alaskan homesteaders Julie and Miki Collins (“An Alaskan Way of Life,” January 1996; “Cabin on the Twelve-Mile,” May 1996). The sisters, who make their home in the wilderness 100 miles north of Anchorage–filling their time (and their cupboards) by trapping, hunting, fishing, and growing their own produce–shared with MEN readers some of the awe-inspiring challenges and rewards of their traditional bush lifestyle. Now, in a new book entitled Riding the Wild Side of Denali:Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies (Epicenter Press), the Collins sisters expand upon their adventures in the vast and often treacherous landscape they call home.

Also new to bookstores is Healing Plants: A Medicinal Guide to Native North American Plants and Herbs (Lyons Press), by MOTHER author Ana Nez Heatherley (“Medicines as Close as Your Door,” July 1995). A former registered nurse, Heatherley eventually left the field to pursue herbal medicine–an interest inherited from her Celtic grandmother, “a healer versed in the use of herbs,” and her Cherokee mother, also a practitioner of natural healing.

Healing Plants is a concise encyclopedia of medicinal herbs and plants found in North America – from algerita, used to relieve chronic indigestion, fever, and soar throat, to yucca, the dried root of which can be used to make preparations for treating dandruff and other skin problems, sores and sprains.

Accompanying the text are more than 120 vibrant photographs that together comprise a beautiful and useful identification guide appropriate for budding and practiced herbalists alike.

  • Published on Feb 1, 1999
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