EAN: 9780739308660

Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his, and America´s, favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world´s first national park. Cahill has been ´´… Mehr…

Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his, and America´s, favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world´s first national park. Cahill has been ´´puttering around in the park´´ for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this mean that he knows what he´s doing? Hardly. ´´I live 50 miles from the park,´´ says Cahill, ´´but proximity does not guarantee competence. I´ve spent entire afternoons not knowing exactly where I was, which is to say, I was lost in my own backyard.´´ Cahill stumbles from glacier to geyser, encounters wildlife (some of it, like bisons, weighing in the neighborhood of a ton), muses on the microbiology of thermal pools, gets spooked in the mysterious Hoodoos, sees moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight, and generally has a fine old time walking several hundred miles while contemplating the concept and value of wilderness. Mostly, Cahill says, ´´I have resisted the urge to commit philosophy. This is difficult to do when you´re alone, 20 miles from the nearest road, and you´ve just found a grizzly bear track the size of a pizza.´´ Divided into three parts, ´´The Trails´´, which offers a variety of favorite day hikes; ´´In the Backcountry´´, which explores three great backcountry trails very much off the beaten track; and ´´A Selected Yellowstone Bookshelf´´, an annotated bibliography of his favorite books on the park, this is a hilarious, informative, and perfect guide for Yellowstone veterans and first-timers alike. Lost in My Own Backyard is adventure writing at its very best. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Cahill. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000443/bk_rand_000443_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax. Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his, and America´s, favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world´s first national park.... English - Travel & Adventure, Random House Audio<

ISBN: 9780739308660

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