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Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon's wild and natural places and its high quality of life. These stories speak to their courage, foresight, and actions-at times against great odds-to save places, enact legislation, and motivate others to cherish and protect the places that make Oregon unique. Taken from personal...
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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes,
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"If wilderness is outlawed,
only outlaws can save wilderness." Edward Abbey
In a collection of
gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast,
environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in
the wild, asking the question many ask in their twilight years: "Was It Worth
It?"
Recounting sojourns
with Abbey, but also Peter Matthiessen, Doug Tompkins, Jim Harrison, Yvon
Chouinard and others, Peacock observes...
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