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To the Wilderness

A Memoir
  • ISBN-13: 9781611493405
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
  • By Marion K. Stocking
  • Price: AUD $202.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2010
  • Format: Hardback 211 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]
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To the Wilderness is the memoir of an outdoorswoman's life in search of the wild. Improvising a canoe route through deep Maine woods, she discovered a century after Thoreau not the forest primeval but a commercial forest, B.C. (Before Chainsaw). Later, in the Minnesota-Ontario border waters she found wilderness being loved to death, making the ironic case for management of wild places. Climbing Mount Katahdin in 1947 provided her with a baseline of untrammeled wilderness. But ecstatic moments of union with nature, she discovered, may be inseparable from alienating and even life-threatening encounters. Having grown through innocence to experience, she contemplated the changing attitudes toward the environment in her lifetime and suggested how one person or a nation may live responsibly on the planet.
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