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Living on Wilderness Time (Hardcover)
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Living on Wilderness Time (Hardcover)
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Soon after her fiftieth birthday, Melissa Walker set out on a
journey that many women of her generation have mapped only in their
dreams. Having spent her adult life raising children and climbing
the academic ladder, Walker decided to put some of the
environmental theories she'd taught into practice. Leaving her
suburban life, she ventured into the wilderness. 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. Walker took off on three extended solitary trips
over the next two years, establishing a way of life for herself
that continues to this day. 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. Her belief in
the primacy of individual achievement changed as she confronted the
hidden structures of life. And her understanding of her environment
broadened when in addition to grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, and
mountain lions, she also met ranchers, loggers, cowboys, and
outfitters whose livelihoods depend on activities that may threaten
wilderness. 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, like Aldo Leopold, who see wilderness as vital
to the human community.
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