A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our
national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to
share these special places with his two young children. But he has
seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and
understands what lies ahead: Alaska's tidewater glaciers are
rapidly retreating, and the abundant sea life in their shadow
departs with them. Encroaching tides threaten beloved wilderness
coasts like Washington's Olympic and Florida's Everglades. Less
snowfall and hotter summers will diminish Yosemite's world-famous
waterfalls. And it is predicted that Glacier National Park's
7,000-year-old glaciers will be gone in a decade.
To Lanza, it feels like the house he grew up in is being looted.
Painfully aware of the ecological--and spiritual--calamity that
global warming will bring to our nation's parks, Lanza sets out to
show his children these wonders before they have changed forever.
He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter,
Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened
wild places as he can fit into a year: backpacking in the Grand
Canyon, Glacier, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain,
and along the wild Olympic coast; sea kayaking in Alaska's Glacier
Bay; hiking to Yosemite's waterfalls; rock climbing in Joshua Tree
National Park; cross-country skiing in Yellowstone; and canoeing in
the Everglades.
Through these poignant and humorous adventures, Lanza shares the
beauty of each place and shows how his children connect with nature
when given "unscripted" time. Ultimately, he writes, this is more
their story than his, for whatever comes of our changing world,
they are the ones who will live in it.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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