Why I came West
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 333.782092 B317w | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws and continual rebirth, just beyond whatever was near it; and he describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist--sometimes at odds with his own neighbors--unable and unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured place disappear.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bass, R. (2008). Why I came West . Houghton Mifflin Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bass, Rick, 1958-. 2008. Why I Came West. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bass, Rick, 1958-. Why I Came West Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bass, Rick. Why I Came West Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
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