Encounters with the Archdruid

Paperback, 256 pages

Langue : English

Publié 30 septembre 1977 par Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN :: 978-0-374-51431-0

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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

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loppear reviewed Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee

Wonderful profile of David Brower

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At the end of his split from leading the Sierra Club, three essays and adventures spent with him and a likely nemesis in the terrain: an advocate of mining Cascades Wilderness, of developing Cumberland Island, and of damming the Colorado and Grand Canyon. Fascinating for being an earlier era of conservation but still entirely recognizable arguments for access for people's needs vs saving the earth and humanity's dependence on a functioning ecosystem. Masterful journalistic project to record these titans on the land they are debating.