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Coming Out of the Woods: The Solitary Life of a Maverick Environmentalist
by Kaufman, Wallace
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0738202584
- ISBN 13
- 9780738202587
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Da Capo Press, 2000. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. 104x16x152. In 1974 Wallace Kaufman, following the romantic vision of a simpler life in harmony with nature he first glimpsed in Thoreau's Walden, moved on to his own land by a small stream in the North Carolina woods. Now, twenty-five years later, he emerges to tell a tale somewhat different from Thoreau's-an entertaining, moving, and distinctly late-twentieth-century story of a life lived in the wild as landowner, environmentally conscious developer, builder, farmer, conservationist, wilderness steward. His love of nature and his commitment to preserving it never waver, even as he tells the sometimes hilarious, sometimes catastrophic story of the ragtag cast of 1970s "back-to-the-land" characters who buy shares of his land in the wake of the first Earth Day; of trying to build a road without cutting down trees or disturbing a streambed, but at last giving in and learning to chainsaw and dynamite; of building his own home; of resorting to violence when flying squirrels refuse the special niches he builds into his walls and insist on taking up residence in his ceiling; of preserving his old-growth forest; of the awesome devastation of hurricanes.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010023229
- Title
- Coming Out of the Woods: The Solitary Life of a Maverick Environmentalist
- Author
- Kaufman, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0738202584
- ISBN 13
- 9780738202587
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 104x16x152
- X weight
- 24 oz
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