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A Song for the River (Paperback)
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A Song for the River (Paperback)
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List price R534
Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
You Save R50 (9%)
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Southwest Book Award, BRLA Notable Book, Sigurd Olson Nature
Writing Award Amazon Book Review Best Nonfiction of 2018 2018
Publisher's Weekly Best Books of the Year, Nonfiction 2018
Southwest Books of the Year Outside Magazine Pick for Best
Adventure Books of the Season NPR Summer Reading List Pick From one
of the last fire lookouts in America comes this sequel to the
award-winning Fire Season--a story of calamity and resilience in
the world's first Wilderness. A dozen years into his dream job
keeping watch over the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, Philip
Connors bore witness to the wildfire he had always feared: a
conflagration that forced him off his mountain by helicopter, and
changed forever the forest and watershed he loved. It was merely
one of many transformations that arrived in quick succession, not
just fire and flood but illness, divorce, the death of a fellow
lookout in a freak accident, and a tragic plane crash that rocked
the community he called home. At its core an elegy for a friend he
cherished like a brother, A Song for the River opens into
celebration of a landscape redolent with meaning--and the river
that runs through it. Connors channels the voices of the voiceless
in a praise song of great urgency, and makes a plea to save a vital
piece of our natural and cultural heritage: the wild Gila River,
whose waters are threatened by a potential dam. Brimming with vivid
characters and beautiful evocations of the landscape, A Song for
the River carries the story of the Gila Wilderness forward to the
present precarious moment, and manages to find green shoots
everywhere sprouting from the ash. Its argument on behalf of things
wild and free could not be more timely, and its goal is nothing
less than permanent protection for that rarest of things in the
American West, a free-flowing river--the sinuous and gorgeous Gila.
It must not perish.
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