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Title: The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner ISBN: 0-8165-1699-5 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This kind of writing is rare
Comment: I got this book when searching for something for my biodiversity class to read that would hook them to the subject and move them the way "Sand County Almanac" did me back in my college days. Wasn't able to read it at the time, but I picked it up this fall, thought I would read an essay at a time before bed, like I usually do with essay books. Sometime in the wee hours I realized that I had to stop reading or I would head out into the dark night and wander until I found the wilderness again. Few modern writers, or writers of any age, have so clearly and eloquently expressed what it means to love the wild, what we are about to loose, and truly why we are loosing it despite efforts to the contrary. Turner's solution is one I believe in, but rarely find seriously advocated, probably because it would work. Frankly, if you haven't gone wild, you may not "get" this book. If you want to really know what the wild is about though, read this book and if you like the sound of things, go seek it out. If you are wild, this will be one of the few books on the topic you can stand to read these days. I haven't been so enlightened since I read "The Practice of the Wild" by Gary Snyder. Five stars means a great book. Some books are beyond that, this is one for the ages.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Can we put the wild back in wilderness?"
Comment: This is a book about wildness. Not about the wilderness where it exists. More importantly this book is about you and me and how we think about wilderness.
I have single-handed my sailboat to Catalina Island many times and watched the dolphins with fascination as they played at the bow of my boat. You cannot help feeling a sense of connection with them as you watch them only a few feet away as they share their ocean with you.
As a young man I stood on top of Mt Whitney and looked out across the many mountain ranges of the High Sierras.
I purchased this book at the visitor's center while camping in Anza Borrego State Park in California. What an appropriate place to buy this book!
I have visited many National and State Parks and National Monuments crowded with people.
So, I have experienced the wildness that Jack Turner talks about and I have also visited the controlled spaces of our current managed wilderness areas that this book addresses.
Because the author has traveled in wilderness areas worldwide and a former philosophy professor from Cornel University and a long time climbing guide in the Tetons of Wyoming this book is an absolute jewel - well researched, eloquently written and straight from the heart.
What can I now write to get you to read this wonderful book? It is more than his opinion. It is a way of thinking about the world we live in and the true meaning of wilderness.
I sometimes end a review with some original poetry. Unfortunately, I am still trying to get my mind around this book. It is such great food for thought.
Here is a quote from the book:
"Do you want to change the world?
I don't think it can be changed.
The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you will ruin it.
If you treat like an object, you will lose it.
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The Master sees things as they are,
With out trying to control them.
He let's them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle."
Lao Tzu
Yes, this reads like a Zen koan. Don't meditate on it too long -read this book and then keep it in your backpack or sea bag.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book with clarity and guts.
Comment: This book is such a welcome deviation from so much "environmental" judgmentalism, finger-pointing, and theoretical whining. Its basic premise is: how can we relate to the "wilderness" we wish to preserve when we don't even spend time with it? And: what, in fact, are we working to preserve?
There is a rawness and intensity to how the writer expresses himself that has a marvelous feeling of sincerity about it. He is not afraid to point up the shadow side of the very ecological programs he subscribes to. Reading, I had the feeling of sitting next to him by a campfire somewhere, or in front of the fireplace in his home in the Grand Teton, hearing him talk from the heart about things that concern him deeply.
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Title: The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder ISBN: 0865474540 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Grizzly Years : In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock ISBN: 0805045430 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Teewinot : Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range by Jack Turner ISBN: 0312284462 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 10 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Wilderness and the American Mind, Fourth Edition by Roderick Frazier Nash, Roderick Nash ISBN: 0300091222 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Lost Grizzlies : A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado by Rick Bass ISBN: 0395857007 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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