Walking the High Ridge: Life as a Field Trip
Robert Michael Pyle
(Author)
Description
"Teaches us how to be the best kind of human beings." --ECLECTICA
As a boy in Colorado, Robert Michael Pyle fell in love with alpine heights and the butterflies that float above the tree line. This early passion sparked a career in conservation that took Pyle across the globe--until he realized that he was no longer as intimate with the natural world that first spurred him to action.
Walking the High Ridge is a journey through Pyle's "unruly pack of interests"--biology, nature conservation, and literature--to his decision finally to choose the life that would give free reign to his scientific and creative impulses and keep him "as much as possible, out of doors."
Product Details
Price
$14.00
$13.02
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Publish Date
August 22, 2000
Pages
172
Dimensions
5.0 X 7.7 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781571312426
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About the Author
Robert Michael Pyle writes essays, poetry, and fiction from an old Swedish farmstead along a tributary of the Lower Columbia River in southwestern Washington. His eighteen books include Wintergreen and The Tangled Bank. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received the John Burroughs Medal and several other writing awards. Pyle's poems have appeared in magazines including the North American Review, and in a chapbook, Letting the Flies Out. Evolution of the Genus Iris was his first full-length book of poems.
