Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland [Paperback] Robert Michael Pyle and Richard Louv

Robert Michael Pyle

ISBN 10: 0870716026 / ISBN 13: 9780870716027

Published by Oregon State University Press, 2011

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Oregon State University Press, 2011. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed and inscribed on a bookplate by author on half title page. Trade paperback with black photographic covers. 212 pp. Seller Inventory # 136200

Bibliographic Details

Title: Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland...

Publisher: Oregon State University Press

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed

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Synopsis:

An engrossing memoir and eloquent portrait of place, The Thunder Tree shows how powerful the relationship between people and the natural world can be.

“When people connect with nature, it happens somewhere,” Pyle writes. “My own point of intimate contact with the land was a ditch… Without a doubt, most of the elements of my life flowed from that canal.” The High Line Canal, originally built outside of Denver, Colorado, as part of a plan to move river water to the Western plains for irrigation, became the author’s place of sanctuary and play, and his birthplace as a naturalist.

This reprint of the classic book, updated with a new foreword by Richard Louv and a preface to this edition, makes one of Pyle’s important early works once again available. For a new generation of readers, it offers a powerful argument for preserving opportunities for exploring nature.

About the Author:

Robert Michael Pyle is the author of Mariposa Road, Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which received a John Burroughs Medal. He lives in Southwest Washington.