Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss."This is some of the finest writing in Laura Watermans long and distinguished career. Anyone who values the history of conservation, or the gnarled wilds of the Northeast, or the complexities of the human spirit will find nourishment in these pages." Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home"In this new book, Laura Waterman tells the full story of her unique life. It began on the campus of a boys school and took her to mountains, growing her own food, and writing. In these pages, readers find what its like to grow up the daughter of the scholar who put the dashes back into Emily Dickinsons poetry how Waterman coped with that brilliant fathers alcoholism her development as a groundbreaking climber and her homesteading life for almost three decades. In these pages she reveals how she kept her strong sense of self while living with a dynamic, lovable, and often challenging man, her late husband, Guy Waterman. She examines closely her role in his suicide on Mount Lafayette in 2000." Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia and the author of Libertarians on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books

Binding: Paperback;324 pages; Publisher: State University of New York Press; Classification: BG; Weight: 537 g; Dimensions: 229 x 152

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