To the Wilderness: A Memoir

To the Wilderness: A Memoir

by Marion K. Stocking
To the Wilderness: A Memoir

To the Wilderness: A Memoir

by Marion K. Stocking

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Overview

To the Wilderness is the memoir of an outdoorswoman's life in search of the wild. Improvising a canoe route through deep Maine woods, she discovered—a century after Thoreau—not the forest primeval but a commercial forest, B.C. (Before Chainsaw). Later, in the Minnesota-Ontario border waters she found wilderness being loved to death, making the ironic case for management of wild places. Climbing Mount Katahdin in 1947 provided her with a baseline of untrammeled wilderness. But ecstatic moments of union with nature, she discovered, may be inseparable from alienating and even life-threatening encounters. Having grown through innocence to experience, she contemplated the changing attitudes toward the environment in her lifetime and suggested how one person or a nation may live responsibly on the planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781936249213
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Publication date: 01/01/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

The late Marion K. Stocking taught at Beloit College for thirty years.
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