His big-screen debut came in Nicholas Ray's ecological adventure Wind Across the Everglades (1958), but with his city accent and nervy, method-oriented style he soon specialised in playing hoodlums in films including Pretty Boy Floyd (1959) and Murder Inc (1960), the latter attracting great attention for his powerful performance as a vicious killer.
When 12-year-old Lucy's scientist father goes missing, she embarks on a supernatural ecological adventure through a fantastical version of the Pacific Northwest.
International Expeditions used Tropic Ecological Adventures, www.tropiceco.com, in Quito for the Andean portion of our trip.
Responding to the international boom in ecological and adventure tourism, lodgings have sprung up all over the region in the past four or five years.
In this paper, we suggest that this lack of conceptual clarity in understanding cognitions, perception and action in action and adventure sports requires a comprehensive explanatory framework, ecological dynamics which considers person-environment interactions from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Certainly there are plenty in the making, including David Lynch's Dune, based on a space adventure which includes such "soft" themes as clairvoyance and ecological preservation.
The resulting book is part natural history, part adventure story (starring Mr. Weidensaul as a kind of ecological-minded Indiana Jones, roaming the world in search of missing species), part essay on the human "need to believe the world is more complete than the catalog of vanishing ecosystems would indicate".
In 2001, the author, a self-described "adventure journalist" and failed Peace Corps volunteer, arrives in Uzbekistan to investigate this ecological disaster.
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (a) to point out some limitations of existing research on action and adventure sports; (b) based on key ideas from emerging research and an ecological dynamics approach, to propose a holistic multidisciplinary model for defining and understanding action and adventure sports that may better guide future research and practical implications.
The stories he presents contain rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure, and they provide skillful capsulizations of the politics, economics, cultural history and ecological dynamics bearing on the fate of each of these cornered populations.
Ecological dynamics provides a holistic, multidisciplinary platform for comprehensive and nuanced understanding of action and adventure sports participation.
