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Through Glacier Park (Paperback)
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Through Glacier Park (Paperback)
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Loot Price R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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"The lure of the high places is in your blood. The call of the
mountains is a real call. The veneer, after all, is so thin. Throw
off the impedimenta of civilization, the telephones, the silly
conventions, the lies that pass for truth. Go out to the West. Ride
slowly, not to startle the wild things. Throw out your chest and
breathe; look across green valleys to wild peaks where mountain
sheep stand impassive on the edge of space. Let the summer rains
fall on your upturned face and wash away the memory of all that is
false and petty and cruel. Then the mountains will get you. You
will go back. The call is a real call." So wrote Mary Roberts
Rinehart in her famous travelogue, Through Glacier Park, first
published in 1916, as the already famous mystery writer introduced
readers to recently minted national park and to the scenic wonders
of Montana and to the adventures to be found there. Howard Eaton,
an intrepid guide who had become known for his Yellowstone
experience, had convinced Rinehart to make the trek to the West.
Traveling three hundred miles on horseback with a group of more
than forty assorted tourists of all shapes and sizes, she took in
her fellow travelers, the scenery, and the travel itself with all
the style and aplomb and humor of the talented fiction writer and
journalist she was-and her words remain fresh and entertaining to
this day.
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