03432nam 2200661Ia 450 991097089890332120200520144314.0978661305097797808032679540803267959978128305097512830509789780803234185080323418X(CKB)2560000000052797(OCoLC)681758752(CaPaEBR)ebrary10426587(SSID)ssj0000467386(PQKBManifestationID)12140853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467386(PQKBWorkID)10489533(PQKB)10952025(Au-PeEL)EBL3039387(CaPaEBR)ebr10426587(CaONFJC)MIL305097(MiAaPQ)EBC3039387(Perlego)4520657(EXLCZ)99256000000005279720100201d2010 ub 1engurcn|||||||||txtccrBreaking into the backcountry /Steve Edwards1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20101 online resource (189 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780803226531 0803226535 Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Getting There -- 2. The Big Quiet -- 3. Breaking into the Backcountry -- 4. Vocation to Solitude -- 5. Spring Visitors -- 6. Own ership -- 7. The Other Side of the Mountain -- 8. Heat of the Summer -- 9. Big Aaron's Visit -- 10. Premonitions -- 11. Aftershocks -- 12. Autumn on the Rogue -- Epilogue.In 2001 Steve Edwards won a writing contest. The prize was seven months of "unparalleled solitude" as the caretaker of a ninety-two-acre backcountry homestead along the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River in southwestern Oregon. Young, recently divorced, and humbled by the prospect of so much time alone, he left behind his job as a college English teacher in Indiana and headed west for a remote but comfortable cabin in the rugged Klamath Mountains. Well aware of what could go wrong living two hours from town with no electricity and no neighbors, Edwards was surprised by what could go right. In prose that is by turns lyrical, introspective, and funny, Breaking into the Backcountry is the story of what he discovered: that alone, in a wild place, each day is a challenge and a gift. Whether chronicling the pleasures of a day-long fishing trip, his first encounter with a black bear, a lightning storm and the threat of fire, the beauty of asteelhead, the attacks of 9/11, or a silence so profound that a black-tailed deer chewing grass outside his window could wake him from sleep, Edwards's careful evocation of the river canyon and its effect on him testifies to the enduring power of wilderness to transform a life. Authors, American21st centuryBiographyOutdoor lifeOregonOregonDescription and travelAuthors, AmericanOutdoor life818/.6BEdwards Steve1974-1804107MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970898903321Breaking into the backcountry4351994UNINA