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Title: The Hermit's Story: Stories by Rick Bass ISBN: 0-618-13932-X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 23 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A five-star compilation of stories to rank among Bass' best.
Comment: Rick Bass is a phenomenal nature writer, and though I have not yet read all of his books, The Hermit's Story is my favorite out of the others I have read. Rick Bass writes about simple life, and the influence of the wilds on people who still live with the land, instead of just on it.
In The Hermit's Story, Bass reveals another ten stories that cut straight to the heart, and bring the reader into a new world, one where people love and care for the land they live on, and where the outside world of today's developed society is strange and unforgiving.
As an avid reader of nature writing, and an outdoors lover, I am enticed by Bass's writing, and it inspires me to write, and to spend time in the wild. I could not ask for more out of a book.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Dreamer's Story
Comment: I don't know Rick Bass. I have been to a couple of book signings, but I have never really met him. But, if you read these stories you will meet him. Writers rarely let anyone in. The closest is Jim Harrison or Larry Brown. Rick Bass let's you in and then rips out his heart and hands it to you. He does this without pretention or without being self- righteouss. I recommend these stories because there is truth here, and truth sets us free.
Rating: 4
Summary: A trophy Bass.
Comment: Whether he's writing about the changing seasons in Yaak Valley, Montana (WINTER) or his bird dog (COLTER), Rick Bass is one of my favorite nature writers. In this collection of ten fictional pieces, we find his characters crossing a frozen lake beneath the ice ("The Hermit's Story"), feeding fresh bread, "crumb by crumb," to beautiful, big swans ("Swans"), escaping the workaday world on a Texas fishing trip ("The Prisoners"), rescuing a marriage by fighting fires--"As long as the city keeps burning, they can avoid becoming weary and numb"(p. 51)--("The Fireman), making love in the "total blackness" of a cave ("The Cave"), living life "a hundred miles round trip" from "a real town" ("Real Town"), pigging out on pancakes, grits, ham, fried eggs, ribs, bacon, biscuits and gravy in a North Carolina diner ("Eating"), and rescuing a deer that fell through ice ("Two Deer"). All the while, Bass approaches his subjects with his characteristic childlike sense of wonder, and with a true respect for wilderness.
G. Merritt
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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 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: In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass ISBN: 0395877474 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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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: Fiber by Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes Bass, Elizabeth Hughes Bass ISBN: 0820320633 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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