Mark Woods (2)
Autor de Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
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Lassoing the sun : a year in America's national parks por Mark Woods
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3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book. Part memoir, part travelogue, the author went into the project intending it to be about not the history of, but the future of America's National Parks. It spent a lot of time weaving the story of personal events in the author's life through the story of his traveling to visit National Parks over a single year.
“The healing solitudes still existed on Haleakala. I could vouch for that. But if the year taught me anything it was that they still exist all over America. Yes, they’re dwindling and under constant attack, but they’re out there. They can be found in deserts and rainforests, canyons and islands, the stars and the sun. They can be found on the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the top of Half Dome. They can be found in a seventeen-ton boulder in a Pennsylvania field and a stone in a child’s hand.”
Beautifully written chronicle about visiting twelve US national parks over the course of a year. The author starts the year at Acadia in Maine and ends in Haleakalā in Hawaii. In the early part of 2012, his mother was diagnosed with cancer, so the book becomes both a travelogue and a reflection on aging and loss. He revisits childhood memories of his parents bringing him to the national parks. His recounts the discoveries of his own children, as they learn to appreciate nature, creating memories that will last a lifetime. He addresses current environmental issues that are impacting the parks.
This book speaks to the beauty in silence. It acknowledges the foresight of earlier national figures in setting aside these lands for everyone to enjoy. Mark Woods has a knack for capturing the sights and sounds of the natural world. The book is also a lovely tribute to his mother.
4.5… (más)
Beautifully written chronicle about visiting twelve US national parks over the course of a year. The author starts the year at Acadia in Maine and ends in Haleakalā in Hawaii. In the early part of 2012, his mother was diagnosed with cancer, so the book becomes both a travelogue and a reflection on aging and loss. He revisits childhood memories of his parents bringing him to the national parks. His recounts the discoveries of his own children, as they learn to appreciate nature, creating memories that will last a lifetime. He addresses current environmental issues that are impacting the parks.
This book speaks to the beauty in silence. It acknowledges the foresight of earlier national figures in setting aside these lands for everyone to enjoy. Mark Woods has a knack for capturing the sights and sounds of the natural world. The book is also a lovely tribute to his mother.
4.5… (más)
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It seems that for many people, the appeal of the book is as a reminder of family trips to the major western parks taken as children. Perhaps because I didn't share that experience, I had more appreciation for Woods' reflections on the merits of the different types of National Park experiences, and the challenges facing the parks in future years.
Sadly, the concerns Woods articulated in 2016 seem minor in comparison with today's reality, when the age-old balance between preserving and exploiting public lands seems to be tilting away from preservation.
It is sad to contemplate what Woods' mother, his muse and a Parks enthusiast who died during the year he spent researching this book, would make of the threats to her beloved wild areas.… (más)
It seems that for many people, the appeal of the book is as a reminder of family trips to the major western parks taken as children. Perhaps because I didn't share that experience, I had more appreciation for Woods' reflections on the merits of the different types of National Park experiences, and the challenges facing the parks in future years.
Sadly, the concerns Woods articulated in 2016 seem minor in comparison with today's reality, when the age-old balance between preserving and exploiting public lands seems to be tilting away from preservation.
It is sad to contemplate what Woods' mother, his muse and a Parks enthusiast who died during the year he spent researching this book, would make of the threats to her beloved wild areas.… (más)
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- 4.0
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