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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An introspective look at our place on this beautiful planet that points out our transitory and impermanent place in the scheme of things. Thought provoking. After reading this book I felt somehow at greater peace with my inner thoughts. Do not know if I have ever read anything quite like this book. It was science mixed in with theory and stories of personal experience and philosophy. I would say "The Dragons of Eden" by Sagan is the closest thing I have read in relationship to this book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for Literature 1984, and named one of the twentieth century's best nonfiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Klamath Knot, originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1983, is a personal vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology." David Rains Wallace uses his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region to ponder the role of evolution and myth in our culture. The author's new epilogue makes a case for the creation of a new park to safeguard this exceptionally rich storehouse of relict species and evolutionary stories, which has largely been bypassed by conservationists since John Muir. No library descriptions found. |
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