Mark Woods

Lassoing the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

A Year in America's National Parks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A love letter to family and our national parks that is as big as a son's heart, as beautiful as the night sky and as stunning as the American landscape." -Wade Rouse, USA Today -bestselling author

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer, given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sungrew into something more: a book about family, the parks, the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality-and their power to heal." -Ken Burns

"Earnest and heartfelt . . . captures how one family handles the joys and sorrows of life, with America's most beautiful landscapes standing in the background." - Travel & Leisure

"A meditation on both personal and environmental legacy." - Entertainment Weekly

"An extraordinary, beautifully crafted memoir that explores not just our national parks, but our places in them, our families, our legacies and the healing power of nature." - The Mercury News

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250105905
• Artikelnr.: 44846635