Melissa Walker set out on a journey that many women of her
generation have mapped only in their dreams. Like many American
chroniclers before her who have surrendered to the aimless
pleasures of the road, Walker had no geographical destination in
mind, but she did have two definite goals--one personal, one
political--for her journey. She was looking for the peace and
solitude of the backcountry, certainly, but she also wanted to
learn the dynamics of preserving wild places and to devote herself
to that cause. In the Sky Islands of southern Arizona, on the banks
of the Popo Agie River and the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming, in
Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, and Olympic National
Park, in Gila and Glacier Peak Wilderness, she encountered the
hazards of wild animals and extreme weather, and she began to
reassess what parts of her life she could control.
Living on Wilderness Time is a book for those who have visited
wild places and want to return, and for others whose overcommitted
urban lives make them long for land where time is measured
differently and human beings are scarce. Above all it is a call to
join those who, like Aldo Leopold, see wilderness as vital to the
human community.
Melissa Walker is vice president of National Wilderness Watch,
chair of the Georgia chapter of Wilderness Watch, serves on the
Southern Appalachian Council of the Wilderness Society, and is the
author of Reading the Environment and Down from the Mountaintop.
She has been Professor of English at the University of New Orleans
and Mercer University and a fellow of Women's Studies at Emory
University. Walker lives with her husband in Atlanta, Georgia.
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