The High Sierra A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson (HC) 1st edition signed

This hardcover book, titled "The High Sierra: A Love Story" by Kim Stanley Robinson, is brand new with a pristine dust jacket covered in protective mylar. The book, published in 2022 by Little Brown & Company, has 560 pages and is a first edition/first printing signed by the author.

Please forgive reflections on the photos due to the mylar dust jacket cover. Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. Is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth. Over the course of a vivid and dramatic narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the Sierras and the history of its exploration, going back to the indigenous peoples who made it home and whose traces can still be found today.

He celebrates the people whose ideas and actions protected the High Sierra for future generations. He describes uniquely beautiful hikes and the trails to be avoided. Robinson's own life-altering events, defining relationships, and unforgettable adventures form the narrative's spine. And he illuminates the human communion with the wild and with the sublime, including the personal growth that only seems to come from time spent outdoors. Is a gorgeous, absorbing immersion in a place, born out of a desire to understand and share one of the greatest rapture-inducing experiences our planet offers.

Packed with maps, gear advice, more than 100 breathtaking photos, and much more, it will inspire veteran hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers to prepare for a magnificent adventure. A titan of science fiction masters a new form in this winsome love letter to California's Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Constructed from an impassioned blend of memoir, history, and science writing, The High Sierra chronicles Robinson's 100-plus trips to his beloved mountains. From descriptions of the region's multitudinous flora and fauna to practical advice about when and where to hike, this is as comprehensive a guidebook as any, complete with all the lucid ecstasy of nature writing greats like John Muir and Annie Dillard. [A] loose-limbed quality is what makes. But it's also something more. Robinson clearly accepts the limits of what nature writing can do, in his hands at least.

After a stunning solo hike, he tries to describe it to a friend. But he discovers that'a day like that can't be shared; that must not be what they are for... Rationality is a word with a dry, ascetic feel to it. Perhaps reasonableness comes a little closer to the animating spirit of. That sounds strange, I know, for a book whose purpose is analyzing Robinson's "crazy love" of the mountains.

But it's a way of getting at the wholeness of his complex approach to the natural world: inquisitive and emotional, thoughtful and immediate, long-range and short-range, drawing on all the variables in the human spirit. Is as sprawling and full of ups and downs as the Sierra Nevada itself, those majestic mountains. The memoir offers fast-paced and highly readable explorations of Sierra history, people, geography, geology and how the range's rocks can shift your mind. The book is most powerful for demonstrating how a mountain range, and its history, can inspire visions of the future. Joe Mathews, San Francisco Chronicle.

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