Why I Came West
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- Synopsis
- In this poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Rick Bass describes how he fell in love with the mystique of the West--as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. Bass grew up in the suburban sprawl of Houston, and after attending college in Utah he spent eight years working in Mississippi as a geologist, until one day he packed up and went in search of something visceral, true, and real. He found it in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, where despite extensive logging not a single species has gone extinct since the last Ice Age. Bass has lived in "the Yaak" ever since, and in Why I Came West he chronicles his transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He explains how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws and continual rebirth; and tells of his own role as a reluctant activist--sometimes at odds with his own neighbors--unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured place disappear. Rick Bass is the author of many acclaimed books of nonfiction and fiction, including The Lives of Rocks, The Diezmo, and Winter.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 243 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780618596751
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date of Addition:
- 05/30/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Rick Bass
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Hadley School Volunteering
- Proofread By:
- Kari G
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.