The High Sierra : : a Love Story

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Travel / Essays & Travelogues / Robinson, Kim Stanley, 917.944 Ro
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

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My Sierra life (1): Not to touch the earth -- Geology (1): Batholith and Pluton -- My Sierra life (2): Break on through -- Sierra people (1): The first people -- My Sierra life (3): Artists in the back country -- Geology (2): Basins -- My Sierra life (4): How we met -- Sierra people (2): John Muir -- My Sierra life (5): the Pinball years -- Geology (3): Crests and divides; also Psychogeology (1): Outside and inside -- Snow camping (1): Freezing our butts -- Sierra people (3): Clarence King -- Names (1): the Good -- Snow camping (2): Close to the edge -- Moments of being (1): A Sierra day: Morning in camp -- My Sierra life (6): Crossing Mather Pass -- Sierra people (4): Mary Austin -- Psychogeology (2): Altitude and foreshortening -- Sierra people (5): Mapping the territory -- Geology (4): Fellfields -- Sierra people (6): Common neighbors -- Moments of being (2): A Sierra day: Rambling and scrambling -- My Sierra life (7): Owls in the blue -- Sierra people (7): The Sierra Club's women -- Sierra people (8): the Fresno crowd -- Routes (1): the Four bad passes -- Moments of being (3): A Sierra day: Sunset and twilight -- My Sierra life (8): Robbie you're wasting your precious youth -- The Swiss Alps (1): Kistenpass -- Snow Camping (3): the Transantarctics -- Sierra people (9): Norman Clyde -- Names (2): the Bad -- Routes (2): the Six good passes -- Geology (5): Canyons and massifs -- Moments of being (4): A Sierra day: Night in camp -- Routes (3) Some West-side entries -- My Sierra life (9) Gear talk -- The Swiss Alps (2): My ascent of the Matterhorn -- My Sierra Life (10): Return to the Sierra -- Moments of being (5): Close calls -- Routes (4): Desolation -- Moments of being (6): A Sierra day: Under the tarp -- My Sierra life (11): Heart trouble -- Names (3): the Ugly -- Sierra people (10): Tree line artists -- Geology (6): Roof pendants -- Sierra people (11): Fish and frogs -- My Sierra life (12): This is the end -- Sierra people (12): Reclusive neighbors -- Sierra people (13): the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep -- Sierra people (14): What didn't get built; and Trail phantoms -- Routes (5) Basins have characters -- Snow camping (4): Extreme housekeeping -- Sierra people (15): Gary Snyder -- Names (4): Naming Mount Thoreau -- Sierra people (16): Michael Blumlein -- Moments of being (7): Late desolation -- The Swiss Alps (3): Seeing Meru -- Routes (6): the High route -- Moments of being (8): the Monsoon gets stronger -- Moments of being (9): Hetch Hetchy restored -- Sierra people (17): Young people in love -- My Sierra life (13): Still getting lost -- Names (5): corrections and additions -- Sierra people (18): We had a good shaman -- Moments of being (10): How big the world becomes in a wind -- Moments of being (11): Have I mentioned how much I like the Fall colors up here? -- My Sierra life (14): For wilderness -- Moments of being (12): the Thicket.
A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).-- Amazon.com.

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Unusual Memoir / Camping manual submitted by severian on July 14, 2022, 7:18pm I'm a huge fun of Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction and also a backpacker, so I wanted to check this out. It's sort of an elaborate, sometimes beautiful, sometimes useful, often historical explanation of how the High Sierras shaped Robinson as a person and as a writer. It definitely made me wish I grew up somewhere in the vicinity of the Sierras, and am maybe even inspired to take a trip there someday. I wish it had even more personal details in it, but what Robinson does give us is pretty interesting. If you've ever wondered why almost every one of his novels includes people either walking and/or trapped in a place together (think of this as the free jazz solo in all of his novels), this book is the implicit answer. If you are intrigued, read on!