Big Wonderful
University Press of Colorado (Verlag)
978-0-87081-846-2 (ISBN)
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Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn't wait to move away. Once ensconced on the East Coast, however, he found himself writing westerns and dreaming of the mountains he'd skied and climbed. Fed up with city life, he moved to a small Wyoming town.
In Big Wonderful, he writes of a mountaineering companion's death, the difficult birth of his son, and his father's terminal illness - encounters with mortality that sharpened his ideas about risk, care, and commitment. He puts a new spin on mountaineering literature, telling wild tales from his reunion with the mountains but also relating the surprising willpower it took to turn back from risks he would have taken before he became a father. He found he needed courage to protect and engage deeply with his family, his community, and the wild places he loves.
Holdsworth's essays and poems are rich with anecdotes, characters, and vivid images. Readers will feel as if they themselves watched a bear destroy an entire expedition's food, walked with his great-great-grandmother along the icy Mormon Trail, and tried to plant a garden in Wyoming's infamous wind.
Readers who love the outdoors will enjoy this funny and touching take on settling down and adventuring in the West's most isolated country.
Kevin Holdsworth is an associate professor of English and directs the Western American Studies Program at Western Wyoming College in Rock Springs.
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Howdy; Theme from an Imaginary Western; At a Cemetery in Salt Lake City; The Doppler Effect; Big, Wonderful; 2. Roots; Finding Seedskadee; Roots; On Visiting Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Homestead; 3. Risk; Finale, Indian Summer; Money for Nothing; Crossing the Three Sisters; Dark Water, Bright Sky; On Dedicating a Statue of John Wesley Powell; 4. Boom and Bust; The Cycle of Snowfields; Boom and Bust, Part One; Emma; I. English Girl; II. Martin's Cove; III. The Burden of Interpretation; IV. Reaching a Settlement; Boom and Bust, Part Two: Economic Manic Depression; 5. Mountains; Lines Composed above Big Sandy Openings; Condensed from Aqueous Vapor in the Atmosphere; Seven Horseshoes; The Longest Day; The Glaciers Are Dying; 6. Children; Viva; Blood, Water, and Wine; Riverview; 7. Charismatic Megafauna; Memo: Town Deer; To the Bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; The Wild Horse Problem; Like a Thief in the Night; 8. Myth; Muy Frio; 9. Adios; Water's Edge; Tethered to Earth; Notes; Bibliography
| Verlagsort | Colorado |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87081-846-5 / 0870818465 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87081-846-2 / 9780870818462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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