A Road Running Southward
Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land

3.5 stars Narrator was amazing for a non fiction book. HOWEVER pronounced Appalachia like “apple-aye-chee-uh” In the genre of I took a walk and wrote about the places I passed through in addition to their ecological histories. As an ecologist much of the information wasn’t new, and it wasn’t a happy......more

I was warned that this book was depressing, and I should have heeded that warning. While I'm no bright-eyed optimist, and I'm fully aware of the environmental degradation that the Southern U.S. has endured and continues to endure, that doesn't mean I want to read about it in excruciating detail on e......more

This snapshot of John Muir's experience juxtaposed with the degraded environment of the present American South is not an easy read. Chapman does well to inject humor and optimism where he can, but the state of water, biodiversity, and overall choices of how to use land all come together as indictmen......more

A solid entry in the "going on a journey and using points along the way to talk about stuff" canon, using a familiar historical route guide--John Muir--but a less well covered route--the South. Each chapter focuses on a distinct modern environmental challenge in the South with varying degrees of con......more

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir’s Journey through an Endangered Land by Dan Chapman (Island Press 2022) (304.20973) (3894). Author Dan Chapman has written an interesting environmental “State of the Southern US” trip journal which comments upon the ecological condition of much of the so......more