Shelton Johnson, An Elequent and Charismatic Author.

Joseph Raglione
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, nice gifts for Christmas include good books. Here is one you may like...>

Dear Joseph,

If you watched the Ken Burns documentary series The National Parks: America´s Best Idea, on PBS last month, you´ll surely remember Shelton Johnson as the eloquent and charismatic Yosemite park ranger whose life was changed by a youthful trip to Yellowstone. You´ll also recall his tale of the "buffalo soldiers": African-Americans serving in the U.S. Cavalry who patrolled Yosemite and other parks at the turn of the last century.

Many have called Shelton the "star" of the series. But did you know he´s also the talented author of a brand-new novel, Gloryland—just published by Sierra Club Books?

Shelton´s novel follows the odyssey of a fictional buffalo soldier, Elijah Yancy—a black cavalryman and the son of slaves who finds true freedom when he is posted to patrol the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903.

Now through December 15th get 20% off Sierra Club Books and Calendars - simply enter the code GLORY at checkout.

Ken Burns himself said of the book, "This is a work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized, with a voice [that´s] new and honest and insightful."


Sierra Club is proud to be the publisher of this remarkable novel, and we´re pleased to make it available to our members and supporters at a very special price, just in time for holiday giving.

You can also use the GLORY discount code to receive 20% off on 2010 Sierra Club Calendars.

Thank you for your support of the Sierra Club and its book publishing division, Sierra Club Books.

With warmest holiday wishes,

Helen Sweetland

Publisher, Sierra Club Books

P.S. Don´t miss out! Get 20% off Sierra Club Books and Calendars!

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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