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Under the Stars
How America Fell in Love with Camping
Author: Dan White
Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer
Unabridged: 14 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/15/2016
Category: Nature
Synopsis
From the High Sierra to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil's playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal.
Whether he's camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while "glamping," or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens, White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muir—along with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Low—helped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.
Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places."Dan White provides not only the history of camping, but also the present marked always by a love for the wild places that remain." ---Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home