Why I came West / Rick Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Rick, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bass, Rick, 1958-.

Bass, Rick.

Bass, Rick, 1958---Homes and haunts--Montana--Yaak Valley.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Montana--Yaak Valley.

Authorship.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

238 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

Summary:

A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws and continual rebirth, just beyond whatever was near it; and he describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist--sometimes at odds with his own neighbors--unable and unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured place disappear.--From publisher description.

Contents:

1 Why I Came West 15

2 Landscape and Imagination 31

3 Meat 49

4 The Question 57

5 The Community of Glaciers 65

6 Wood 77

7 Oil 95

8 The Poison of Language 109

9 Fourteen Gardens 119

10 Who We Are, What We Do 133

11 Bear Spray Stories 169

12 Rebecca's "My Hair Is on Fire" Lobster Soup 183

13 Threshold 193.

ISBN:

9780618596751

0618596755

OCLC:

159919447