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There is no need to hike naked to a visitor center after your boat is capsized and pinned to a rock midriver. Your friends dont have to almost die from hypothermia crossing a lake because you chose to save the gear first. These things happened to Alan Kesselheim and you can learn from his mistakes …
Book Review of The Wilderness Paddlers Handbook by Alan Kesselheim Read More »
Barry Lopez is a master of literary non-fiction, but even he occasionally has trouble finding the right words to describe the landscapes he so aptly writes about. Which is why he, along with managing editor, Debra Gwartney, has compiled a tome of evocative terms and their definitions that describe the American landscape. (Trinity University …
Book Review of Home Ground, Edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney Read More »
There is nothing new about romanticizing the Old West. Even as the days of get along little doggies were beginning to wane, writers and artists were longing for years gone by. Caroline Lockhart was one of those writers, who, in the early part of the last century wrote tales of the Wild West, even when …
Grizzly bears have always been contentious, portrayed as man-killers and livestock-raiders; the embodiment of cruelty to some and wildness to others. Its apropos that at a time when courts are struggling with the legality of delisting the great bear from the Federal Endangered Species list, Mike Lapinski would write his book, , chronicling the hard …
Book Review of Grizzlies and Grizzled Old Men by Mike Lapinski Read More »
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