Will Harlan Luncheon Event

"Booked for Lunch" with Will Harlan

We are overjoyed to welcome Will Harlan to the store for a luncheon event at Stafford's Pier Restaurant to celebrate his fascinating work of non-fiction, Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island. Will will join us on Tuesday, August 5th from noon to 2:00 p.m. at Stafford's Pier Restaurant.  This is a ticketed event and reservations are required.  Tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased in-store or on our website, your ticket purchase also entitles you to a $5 discount on the purchase of the book.  For more information, please call us at 231.347.1180 or send us an email

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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. She’s had three husbands and many lovers, one of whom she shot and killed in self-defense. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia.

Cumberland is the country's largest and most biologically diverse barrier island—over forty square miles of pristine wilderness celebrated for its windswept dunes and feral horses. Steel magnate Thomas Carnegie owned much of Cumberland, and his widow Lucy made it a Gilded Age playground. But in recent years, Carnegie heirs and the National Park Service have clashed with Carol over the island’s future. What happens when a dirt-poor naturalist with only a high-school diploma tries to stop one of the wealthiest families in America? Untamed is the story of an American original standing her ground and fighting for what she believes in, no matter the cost.

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Will Harlan is editor in chief of Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine and an award-winning journalist. He has written for National Geographic Adventure and appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

 

Event date: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Event address: 
307 E Lake St.
49770 Petoskey
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