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Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.
"This is some of the finest writing in Laura Waterman's long and distinguished career. Anyone who values the history of conservation, or the gnarled wilds of the Northeast, or the complexities of the human spirit will find nourishment in these pages." - Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home
"In this new book, Laura Waterman tells the full story of her unique life. It began on the campus of a boy's school and took her to mountains, growing her own food, and writing. In these pages, readers find what it's like to grow up the daughter of the scholar who put the dashes back into Emily Dickinson's poetry; how Waterman coped with that brilliant father's alcoholism; her development as a groundbreaking climber; and her homesteading life for almost three decades. In these pages she reveals how she kept her strong sense of self while living with a dynamic, lovable, and often challenging man, her late husband, Guy Waterman. She examines closely her role in his suicide on Mount Lafayette in 2000." - Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia and the author of Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Wild Places
I. Getting Started
1. A Camp in the Wild, 1945-1952
2. Books in My Life
3. Growing Up with Emily Dickinson
4. Writing Together
II. The Homestead: Barra
5. Making the Break
6. The Adirondacks 46 in Winter!
7. Discovering the Spirit of Wildness
8. Seasons of Sugaring
9. Of Time and Mountains
10. Counting Our Accomplishments
11. From Climber to Mountain Steward
12. Light in a Cabin
13. Prospero's Options
III. Lighting Out for the Territory
14. Two Sides of a Promise
15. A Vision of Wildness
16. At Home Above the Great Gulf
17. Seeking an Ethic of Restraint
18. A Wildness of the Imagination
19. Advancing Technologies and Wild Places
20. The Ascent at Eighty
Epilogue: Letting Go
