When in Doubt, Go Higher: A Mountain Gazette Anthology

When in Doubt, Go Higher: A Mountain Gazette Anthology

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Book Description
Mountain Gazette offered proof that "outdoor literature" need not be an oxymoron. Running a scant eight years, from 1972 to 1979, the magazine featured material by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects. This volume collects the best material ? nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations ? from the old and new Mountain Gazette. Selections include singer-songwriter Katie Lee?s "The Ride," a meditation on biking through town naked; "The Monkey Wrench Gang: A Review," by George Sibley; and Karen Recknagel's "Climbing the Walls in Berkeley." Other contributors include Edward Abbey, Galen Rowell, Steve Wishart, and Cindy Kleh.

From the Publisher
Since 1972 Mountain Gazette magazine has been delighting, surprising, and offending readers with great essays, flippant features, outrageous opinion, and memorable short fiction on almost any subject even remotely connected with mountains. Mountain Gazette is partly literate and unashamedly dirt-bag, an eclectic mix that?s littered with wit and invention but sometimes as dark and cold as death on a high-altitude glacier.

You won?t love everything in this eclectic anthology, but we know that one or two of these pieces will stay with you for a long while. Pieces about climbing, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding, river-running, Pieces about drinking, road tripping, sex (several permutations), fly fishing, naked bike riding. Pieces about gear shops, saunas, trucks, the simple life, the complicated life, life and death.

Some of the writers you've heard of?like Charles Bowden (Black Orchid) and John Nichols (Milagro Beanfield War). Others you've not heard of because they published one outstanding piece in Mountain Gazette and then vanished, probably into some remote mountain range. A few published early work in Mountain Gazette and went on to write famous, memorable books?like Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang), Ted Kerasote (Navigations) and David Roberts (Moments of Doubt).

When in Doubt, Go Higher: Mountain Gazette Anthology,M. John Fayhee,Mountain Sports Press,0967674794,Essays,General,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Mountains,Outdoor Skills,Sports & Recreation,Nature / Mountains

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