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Under the stars : how America fell in love with camping / Dan White.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2016]Description: xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781627791953 (hardback)
  • 1627791957 (hardback)
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Contents:
Under the stars -- Help me, Henry -- Exploring the Sewards with Zippy -- Camping the crazy away -- Hero of camping : George Washington Sears -- Acts of transmission -- Clash of the neckerchiefs -- Hero of camping : the S'more -- Wild Victorian ladies -- Gator girls -- Nine Mile Pond -- The odd couple -- Hero of camping : Estwick Evans -- Night at Badger Spring -- How's the road? -- The haunted duffel bag -- Hero of camping : Edward Abbey -- The Immaculator -- Kovu's brother -- Hell on wheels -- A dose of enchantment.
Summary: "From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, from remote wildernesses to public campgrounds and RV meccas, Dan White travels across America, searching through its history and landscapes to tell the story of how camping took hold of the national imagination and evolved alongside a changing country. Whether he has sought out the quietest place in the continental United States, gone on safari in California, or joined a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White's wide-ranging enthusiasm and openness, his humor and insight reveals a vast and varied population of nature seekers, a nation still in love with its wild places"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: Let's Go Camping Fiction notes: Click to open in new window
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Dan White's Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places.

"The definitive book on camping in America. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand--and sometimes face first--how the American wilderness transformed from the devil's playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal.

Whether he's camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while "glamping," or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muir--along with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Low--helped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.

"From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, from remote wildernesses to public campgrounds and RV meccas, Dan White travels across America, searching through its history and landscapes to tell the story of how camping took hold of the national imagination and evolved alongside a changing country. Whether he has sought out the quietest place in the continental United States, gone on safari in California, or joined a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White's wide-ranging enthusiasm and openness, his humor and insight reveals a vast and varied population of nature seekers, a nation still in love with its wild places"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-385) and index.

Under the stars -- Help me, Henry -- Exploring the Sewards with Zippy -- Camping the crazy away -- Hero of camping : George Washington Sears -- Acts of transmission -- Clash of the neckerchiefs -- Hero of camping : the S'more -- Wild Victorian ladies -- Gator girls -- Nine Mile Pond -- The odd couple -- Hero of camping : Estwick Evans -- Night at Badger Spring -- How's the road? -- The haunted duffel bag -- Hero of camping : Edward Abbey -- The Immaculator -- Kovu's brother -- Hell on wheels -- A dose of enchantment.

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