On the Dark Side of the Moon: A Journey Toward Recovery - Brossura

Medberry, Mike

Brossura

ISBN 10: 087004513X ISBN 13: 9780870045134

Casa editrice: Caxton Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

In the spring of 2000, Mike Medberry, a longtime advocate of conservation with American Lands, the Wilderness Society, and the Idaho Conservation League, suffered a stroke in the remote wilderness of the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. He was rescued after nearly a full day lying alone and contemplating death in one of the harshest yet most beautiful landscapes in the lower forty-eight states.

Medberry was flown to a nearby hospital about the same time that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, on behalf of President Clinton, came to Craters of the Moon to support protecting three-quarters of a million acres as a unique national monument, a conservation effort in which Medberry himself had already been personally involved.

This story interweaves Medberry’s own struggle to speak, walk, and think with the struggle to protect this brutal, lava-bound, but for him gentle landscape. Medberry’s recovery from the stroke and his struggle to protect Craters of the Moon is a story of renewal, restoration, accommodation, and, ultimately, of finding workable compromises to some of life’s most difficult problems.

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Recensione:

"In "On the Dark Side of the Moon", Medberry launches readers into a captivating account of the chilling, solitary moments of a devastating stroke in the middle of a cinder-coned wilderness, then carries them through the rediscovery of his consciousness and the desert he loves." --Rocky Barker"Idaho Statesman"

L'autore:

Mike Medberry has served as a senior environmentalist for several local and national conservation organizations and holds an MFA from the University of Washington. Over the past twenty-five years he has written nonfiction for Northern Lights Journal, High Country News, Black Canyon Quarterly, Hooked on the Outdoors, Wilderness Magazine, and the e-magazine Writer's Workshop Review, as well as short fiction.

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• Editore: Caxton Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 087004513X
• ISBN 13: 9780870045134
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 165