Product Description: As a youth in Denver, Donald Mace Williams developed an affection for high mountain country. After a journalistic career spent mostly on flat lands, he set out to rediscover what was special about country above timberline. He hiked the high alpine in four of America's major ranges-the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and northern Appalachians-and in his narrative of his travels, he tells us what he saw and learned and who he met...read more

"People who know wilderness�real wilderness�know there is a dark side to the moon. This is a book about inner mountaineering, a perspective only an older climber can give."�Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind

Essays relate experiences in the alpine wilderness

Journeys through the Sierra Nevadas, the Cascade range, Canada's Coast Mountains, the Colorado Rockies, Las Sierras in Mexico, the Great Smokies, and the northern Appalachians

Journeys through the Sierra Nevadas, the Cascade range, Canada's Coast Mountains, the Colorado Rockies, Las Sierras in Mexico, the Great Smokies, and the northern Appalachians

Product Description: NATIONALGEOGRAPHY SOCIETY PRENTATION ON THE HISTORY OG THE AMERICAN MOUNTAIN MEN