WNJ Exclusive: 'Wild New Jersey Road Trip' launches with 30+ events around state
David Wheeler, Author of “Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State”.
Photo by Krysti Sabins
by Jillian Weislo
This week, New Jersey nature writer David Wheeler launches his event tour for the much-anticipated book, “Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State.” The author unveiled a schedule of over 30 book events planned for 2011 – with the first events coming this Thursday and Friday.
Wheeler, an experienced and compelling public speaker, is launching a book tour – the Wild New Jersey Road Trip – across New Jersey and beyond, with over 30 events scheduled so far in 2011. The tour kicks off with events at Roseland Public Library in Roseland on Thursday, February 17, and at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville (near the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge's Brigantine trails) on Friday, February 18.
The full schedule of dates and location for the book tour can be found at WildNewJerseyBook.tv.
“Contrary to the stereotypes, no state in America offers a broader range of outdoor activities and wildlife than New Jersey,” says Wheeler. “The Garden State offers spectacular adventures for every season and every region, for avid wildlife enthusiasts and families alike. With ‘Wild New Jersey,’ readers can find the nearby outdoor action just waiting to be explored.”
The book’s narrative follows Wheeler’s year spent outdoors from High Point to Cape May, joining biologists, expedition leaders, and local experts on wildlife expeditions from birding and canoeing to seining and dogsledding. Books are on sale online and in Barnes & Noble stores across New Jersey and the metropolitan regions of New York and Pennsylvania.
“This book captures why we must preserve what’s left of nature in New Jersey – and it reads like a page-turner you can't put down," says Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
Published by Rutgers University Press, “Wild New Jersey” has received glowing endorsements from a wide range of state leaders, from former Governor James Florio, to New Jersey Audubon president Tom Gilmore, to author and New Yorker writer Tony Hiss.
“Wild New Jersey may sound like fantasy – but this inspiring book is all reality. It's David Wheeler's great gift that he can continually see the treeline behind the skyline and hear the wild birds calling beyond the traffic's roar,” says Hiss. “Here is a book that will change your understanding of where you are, and show you the wild strength and beauty that is still the heartbeat of the nation's most urbanized state.”
“Wild New Jersey captures what is at stake in our fight to clean up, restore, and protect our beautiful natural areas,” says Florio.
Wheeler previously wrote a nature column for the Star Ledger and has written freelance nature stories for a range of other media.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/14/2011 11:00 AM 
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Categories: Wild New Jersey book
Tags: New Jersey nature david wheeler Wild New Jersey Roseland Public Library Noyes Museum of Art
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