Breaking into the backcountry / / Steve Edwards
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| Autore: |
Edwards Steve <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Breaking into the backcountry / / Steve Edwards
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.6 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 21st century |
| Outdoor life - Oregon | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Oregon Description and travel |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Breaking into the backcountry |
| ISBN: | 9786613050977 |
| 9780803267954 | |
| 0803267959 | |
| 9781283050975 | |
| 1283050978 | |
| 9780803234185 | |
| 080323418X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970898903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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