Almost Anywhere (eBook)

Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

Krista Schlyer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
296 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0056-7 (ISBN)

Infos

What do you do when your world ends? At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined herone a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dogand together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.The journey began as a desperate escape from urban isolation, heartbreak, and despair, but became an adventure beyond imagining. Chronicling their colorful escapade, Almost Anywhere explores the courage, cowardice, and heroics that live in all of us, as well as the life of nature and the nature of life.This eloquent and accessible memoir is at once an immersion in the pain of losing someone particularly close and especially young and a healing journey of a broken life given over to the whimsy and humor of living on the road.

Autor

Krista Schlyer is a conservation photographer and writer. She is a senior fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers and her work has been published by BBC, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, The National Geographic Society, and Audubon. Schlyer is the author of two previous books including Continental Divide, winner of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Award. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography and the 2015 Vision Award from the North American Nature Photographers Association. She resides in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
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• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: America • Americas • america's wild • Arcadia • award-winning photojournalist • Backpacking • beloveds • Bison • books on arcadias • books on canyons • books on continental divides • books on friend bills • books on glaciers • books on posters • books on pronghorns books on bisons • books on shenandoahs • books on wildlives • border land • Borderlands • Border policy • Border Security • border wall • Canyon • Capital • Chipmunk • conservation • continental divide • deep loss • disabling • enormously • environmental • expensive cheese • friend bill • Galapagos • gas mileage • Glacier • glamorous aspects • Herd • highly relatable • huge animals • hugeness poster • human presence • Immigration Policy • laugh-aloud • maggie schlyer • Mexico • mexico border • Mount • mundane struggles • Natural landscape • natural world • north-country • Parks • photography • Pronghorn • rainier • reef • reverence • Road-trip • Ruminations • schyler • seeking solace • serious emotional • Shenandoah • sobs • sonoran • Station Wagon • stows • thawed • unfazed • unique insights • United States • waivers • Wanderlust • warts • Washington • Wilderness • wildlife
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0056-0 / 1510700560
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0056-7 / 9781510700567