Gila Descending

A Southwestern Journey

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

329 kr

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Herein is the remarkable story of a 200-mile wilderness journey down the Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona. Traveling partly on foot, mostly by canoe, the author was accompanied by a hound dog and a tomcat. His trip is replete with whitewater thrills, and angling for trout, bass, and catfish; ruminations on the wilderness ethic, and the antics of two companions who promote humor, exasperation, and love. But besides being a modern-day excursion into the natural world, ""Gila Descending"" is a personal odyssey as well; and little by little that story, too, is told.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-01-16
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagHigh Lonesome Books
ISBN9780944383209

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Gila Descending is a joy to read. M. H. Salmon and his feisty animal co-pilots have enough chutzpah to keep us laughing; enough literary audacity to delight and educate; and enough love of land, water, and wilderness to stir the most hardened conscience. - John Nichols ""... a delightful book. No reader could ask for a finer river to read about than the Gila, or a better companion to explore it with than M. H. Salmon. May the Government (ugh!) and God (we hope) long preserve them both."" - Edward Abbey ""As you join the author - and his coyote hound and tomcat - on a float trip down the Gila, you will find a unique companion: a hunter with an informed environmental conscience; a fisherman with the sense to know that catfish are as good as trout; a wry observer whose prose owes more to local speech and the elegant essays of Aldo Leopold than to the high-tech fodder in the yuppie monthlies. Above all, he is a passionate and original defender of wilderness with its hair on."" - Steve Bodio, ""Bodio's Review,"" Gray's Sporting Journal