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Jack Turner
Advenures in the arctic Pharmacist, pastor and Bible translator Part of the popular Trail Blazers series
The Abstract Wild
Turner argues that once any land, even national parks and wilderness areas, is managed it ceases to be wild.
Spice
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Sins of the Past
Jack Turner's world has changed. He is a highly respected member of the House of Lords. But with change has come tragedy and heartbreak. Someone is stalking Jack and he has had enough. He wants justice. Not through the law courts, but retribution on his terms. What he wants is revenge for the killing of his fiancé. Searching the London underworld for the suspects leads to a kidnapping in Scotland. Helped by his friend, Mel Doyle they chase the men responsible. But there is someone looking for his own revenge for the collateral damage caused on a mission in Jack and Doyle's past.
Sins of the Mother
In the second book of the series, a letter from a Caribbean Island brings back memories for Lord Jack Turner, of his late wife. The contents of the letter shock him and he needs to get to the truth. Jack seeks advice from a person he believes to be reliable and discreet. A respected colleague in the House of Lords. Both the letter and his colleague hide secrets from the past. Discovering what they are expose Jack's errors of judgement and draw him into the London underworld. A dangerous world of murderers, kidnappers, gangsters and criminals. They will stop at nothing to keep their crimes secret.
Awakening to Race
The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original recon...
Teewinot
Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear friends. Later in life, he led treks in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, and Peru, but he always returned to the mountains of his youth. He continues to climb the Tetons as a guide for Exum Mountain, Guides, the oldest and most prestigious guide service in America. Teewinot is his ode to forty years in the mountains that he loves. Like Thoreau and Muir, Turner has contemplated the essential nature of a landscape. Teewinot is a book about a mountain range, its austere temper, its seasons, its flora and fauna, a few of its climbs, its w...
