The wilderness within : reflections on leisure and life / Daniel L. Dustin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dustin, Daniel L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recreation.

Leisure.

Parks.

Wilderness areas.

Physical Description:

xiii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : Sagamore-Venture Publishing, [2018]

Contents:

Part one : The California years. In search of rescue ; The world according to gorp ; The myth of comfort ; The wilderness within : reflections on a 100-mile run ; Inside, outside, upside down : the Grand Canyon as a learning laboratory ; Recreational usufruct rights The incident at "New" Army Pass ; Recreational ethics in a world of limits The barrenlands ; Fly-fishing with B.L. Driver ; To feed or not feed the bears : the moral choices we make ; Coyote Gulch ; Looking inward to save the outdoors ; Back in the USSR ; Peace, leisure, and recreation ; Soldier Lake ; Leave It to Beaver ; Betting on big Bertha ; Time for pool : the surprising way ; Easy street ; Peggy Sue's diner

Part two : The Florida years. Fakahatchee Strand ; Wasting away in Boca Grande ; Buffalo Tiger's dilemma ; Confessions of a technological resistance fighter ; The professor who mistook his life for a stat ; Land as legacy ; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument : the politics of environmental preservation ; I'm back in the saddle again ; A Leopoldian success story : Mojave National Preserve ; Remembering Manzanar ; Is this heaven? ; Saturday night at the Lazy "B" bar and cafe ; Free spirit ; Wilderness and everyday life ; Mapping the geography of hope ; Were you ever out in the great alone?

Part three : The Utah years. Westward ho! ; Hey diddle diddle ; The basketmakers ; Writing people back into wilderness ; Gates of Lodore ; Desolation Sound ; A walk in the park ; Lunch with Hayduke ; Sky pilot ; Fishing off the dock of the bay ; Friendship ; Antidote to despair

Postscript : My life in higher education. Woulda, coulda, shoulda ; Joe Arave ; Professor dog ; Ariadne's thread ; In defense of not knowing ; Mark Twain on darkness and lightness in social science ; On penmanship ; Writing my own ending

Synthesis. Like light passing through a prism ; Gardening as a subversive activity ; The power of possibility ; Democracy is a verb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and index.

ISBN:

1571679235

9781571679239

OCLC:

1048938894