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"I wanted to see if I could arrive in the heart of the wild by making a path out of words and photographs." The reader picks up the author's trail which meanders among words like secret, nature, wildness, cosmos, space, time, physics, capitalism, self-help, solitude, culture, land, hero, soundness, freedom, community, and walking with a poetic tendency for evoking ancestors and memories, nuance and resonance, accrued meanings and levels of significance. Robertson's book is a kind of exegesis. The first text was land - Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, Mt. Tamalpais, etc. It inspired commentaries by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Clarence King, Mary Austin, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and others. Robertson considers both the land and the responses, continuing and adding to a tradition of myth making and a religion of nature. His purpose is large and generous. He is sharing walks, drives, places, and books that are important in his life. Hikers, nature lovers, poetic souls, and people concerned with contemporary human and ecological dilemmas will want to engage with real matter - "rock, air, fire, wood, Hershey bars, and past events" - and become walking participants in the related and interwoven world envisioned as a prerequisite to knowledge of wildness.
Real Matter,David Robertson,Univ of Utah Pr (T),0874805341,Automobile travel,California,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Essays,Hiking,History and criticism,Nature,Nature / Field Guide Books,Nature/Ecology,Travelers' writings, American,United States - West - General,West (U.S.),Journeys,Robertson, David
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