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Title: Winter : Notes from Montana by Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes ISBN: 0-395-61150-4 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: WINTER, a review
Comment: WINTER notes from Montana is a diary of Rick Bass' first winter in the Yaak Valley of Northern Montana. The book details his on going struggle of learning about and surviving the hardships of living in the snowbound Yaak Valley
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Bass moves from the warm climate of Texas were he was a geologist to the Yaak Valley to write. The book details Bass' struggle as he works to find enough wood to last the long winter and to learn all the tricks of survival in the cold and snow. Bass subtly points out changes happening to him through out the book and this is brought to light when his father comes to visit. While they are fishing ""you've changed," my father said, not uncomfortably, as he mended his line." I think this points out Bass' reason for moving to the Yaak Valley and his purpose in being there. Bass wanted to give up the life of the daily grind and to become one with nature and life.
Although the book is meant to view Bass' ideas on environmental issues, he doesn't over state any of them or push them on the reader. The book is well written and very enjoyable to read. Whether the reader is pro or con on the issues in the book he/she can take an enjoyable hour or two and read the book for the pure enjoyment of Bass' writing.
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Rating: 5
Summary: Riveting!!!!
Comment: Winter (notes from Montana) takes place in the Yaak River Valley of Montana in the late 1980's. Rick Bass's riveting journal transports the reader to this remote area and helps to involve the reader in his transformation from dependence upon civilization to the ability to appreciate solitude. The sporadic entries enable the reader to see the changes that are taking place in the author more readily than he sees them. "I suppose I was pretending that I had always realized what I needed-deep, dark woods and quietness, a slowness-and that I hadn't been floundering for thirty years trying to figure this out, trying to get along in the cities, trying to move fast. He was right, though. I have changed. I can take apart a generator and put it back together. I can file a saw. My heart has changed too. I'm in less of a hurry." (p. 161). Bass finally begins to see that by learning to depend on nature and himself, he is learning that what we think we need is not always the best for us. This book is an excellent piece to help readers appreciate the life of convenience but also envy the simpler life Bass is living in Yaak.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Moron In Nature
Comment: Everything you need to know about this book can be summed up in the following: This writer, a supposed environmentalist from Texas, who spends most of the book complaining about loss of forest and pollution, nevertheless spends most of his winter cutting wood with a chainsaw so that he can heat his greenhouse until it's sweating hot -- like the land he left to come up north -- and exercise while he stares out at the snow.
This is a textbook of how to be both smug and oblivious, how NOT to approach nature. I wonder whether he even realizes how stupid, self-righteous, and hypocritical he sounds in this.
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Title: The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass ISBN: 0395877466 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had by Rick Bass ISBN: 0618127364 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness by Rick Bass ISBN: 0395924758 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Roadless Yaak: Reflections and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wild Places by Rick Bass ISBN: 1592281370 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Deer Pasture by Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes Bas ISBN: 0393314359 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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