Melissa Walker (1) (1941–2011)
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Melissa Walker is vice president of National Wilderness Watch, chair of the Georgia chapter of Wilderness Watch, serves on the Southern Appalachian Council of the Wilderness Society
Werke von Melissa Walker
Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women`s Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 (1991) 15 Exemplare
Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South) (2004) 10 Exemplare
All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 (Revisiting Rural America) (2002) 7 Exemplare
Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History (New Directions in Southern History) (2006) — Autor — 3 Exemplare
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- 1941
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- 2011-05-04
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- Dublin, Georgia, USA
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- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Wohnorte
- Dublin, Georgia, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Emory University (B.A., Ph.D.|English Literature)
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- author
civil rights activist
environmental activist
peace activist
professor, University of New Orleans
professor, Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia (Zeige alle 7)
Fellow, Institute of Women's Studies, Emory University - Organisationen
- Wilderness Watch: National Board & Georgia Chapter President
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE): Executive Council
Wilderness Society: Vice Chair, Southern Appalachian Council - Kurzbiographie
- Dr. Melissa Graves Walker was born and raised in Dublin, Georgia, and completed both her undergraduate and doctoral degrees in English literature at Emory University. She taught first at the University of New Orleans and then at Mercer University in Atlanta, where she served as chair of the English department. In 1990 she became a Fellow in the Institute of Women's Studies at Emory. In 1984, Walker wrote Writing Research Papers: A Norton Guide . This popular textbook subsequently came out in four editions, the most recent in 1997. In 1991, Yale University Press published her book Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement . While teaching, writing, and raising a family, Walker became an activist for civil rights, peace, and environmental issues. She was an outspoken advocate for wilderness and served for ten years on the national board of Wilderness Watch as well as president of the Georgia chapter. She also served on the executive council of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), and was vice chair of the Southern Appalachian Council of the Wilderness Society. In 1994, Norton published her edited collection of essays by nature and science writers entitled Reading the Environment . Shortly after turning fifty, Walker embarked on a solitary quest to learn about America's wilderness areas. She made two extended trips to the American west, camping in Arizona's sky islands, the northern Rockies, the red rock canyons of southern Utah, the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, and finally on the deck of a ferry bound for Alaska. Each of these two trips lasted about three months, and during the intervening winter she camped in and around the Everglades. Her account of these travels, Living on Wilderness Time: 200 Days Alone in America's Wild Places , was published by the University of Virginia Press and won the Georgia Writers' Association award for Best Memoir of the Year in 2002. Beginning with her first visit to Alaska via ferry, Walker made a total of ten trips to Alaska. She recalled that since her childhood she had always wanted to go "as far north as I could go." She traveled alone to the Alaskan Arctic to learn about Eskimo culture. Another trip took her to the Canadian Arctic to actually see polar bears in the wild, as well as learn about the challenges they face as the world's climate changes. Walker's first book for children, A Place for Delta , tells the story of an orphaned polar bear cub. Set in both the Alaskan Arctic and the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, the book is illustrated by her son Richard Walker. Published in the spring of 2010, it won the International Book Award for Best Children's Fiction of that year. Melissa Walker was diagnosed and first treated for breast cancer in 1997, which was dormant until it returned in early 2008. Walker died May 4th at Hospice Atlanta. (From Dr. Walker's obituary, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 8, 2011.)
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While in Alaska, Joseph meets Ada, an Eskimo girl about his age. Together, and with a little help from the grown-ups, the kids unravel the mystery surrounding the killing of another polar bear, Delta's mother.
With this mystery solved, another problem arises. Where will the researchers find a place for Delta? As an orphan, she would never survive in the wild, and by taking her in to care for the bear, they have created some dependence in her on humans. Kate and Joseph have the solution to this problem, though, and with the help of Chipic, an Eskimo friend, a place for Delta is found.
A Place for Delta is targeted toward children aged 9-12, but with a little help with some of the more difficult words, I think it would make an excellent book for those as young as 7. Walker does not shy away from using appropriate words, from herpetologist and amphibian to contraband and infrared, but she always explains the concept in a clear, easy to understand manner. It is no wonder that A Place for Delta was the winner in the Children's Fiction category of the 2010 International Book Awards.
This book is the first in a series that Walker plans to write, exploring the themes of the natural world and our commitment to caring for it. As such, A Place for Delta, certainly encourages responsibility toward nature and introduces issues like Global Warming. It would make an excellent starting point for any parents who wishes to instill a love for nature and a sense of responsibility for it in their children. To aid parents in this endeavor, there is an extensive list of resources at the end of the book.
This review is based on a promotional copy provided to me.… (mehr)