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The West Will Swallow You - Essays (Paperback)
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The West Will Swallow You - Essays (Paperback)
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List price R459
Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
You Save R73 (16%)
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At eighteen, Vermont-native Leath Tonino ventured west to attend
college in Colorado. Upon hearing his destination, many of
Tonino’s friends and family predicted that he’d never come
back; he’d make the “land of endless space and sky, its ranges
and their storms” his home. “The West will swallow you,” one
said, in a tone that felt like part warning and part prophecy. More
than a decade later Tonino continues to call Vermont his home. But
despite his love of New England and his admiration for writers who
sing the praises of their native ground, he concedes that he is, as
Gary Snyder once phrased it, “promiscuous with landscapes.”
Tonino has spent the intervening years since college traversing
“the alphabet of the American West from AZ to CA to UT to WY”
and writing about its mysterious and powerful beauty. The resulting
musings are collected in The West Will Swallow You, the title of
which is a nod to the words that stayed with him and that, in many
ways, turned out to be true. Although the adventures gathered here
range widely in terrain and tone, the western landscape is always
front and center—focusing on Arizona’s remote Kaibab Plateau,
where Tonino worked as a biologist studying raptor communities, in
San Francisco’s overgrown nooks and crannies and pigeon-flocked
park benches, on ranches in Wyoming, at campsites in Nevada, in the
mountains of Colorado, and “in libraries and national monuments,
in people, in a midnight fox’s eyes, in the rushing wind.”
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