Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping by Dan White
By Dan White
“The definitive ebook on camping out in the US. . . . A passionate, witty, and deeply enticing exam of why people enterprise into the wild.”—Cheryl Strayed, writer of Wild
From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the country to adventure firsthand—and occasionally face first—how the yankee wasteland reworked from the devil’s playground right into a resource of experience, rest, and renewal.
Whether he’s tenting nude in cougar kingdom, being attacked through natural world whereas “glamping,” or crashing a girls-only event for city young people, Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outside game. within the approach, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muir—along with visionaries corresponding to Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Low—helped blaze a path from Transcendentalism to go away No Trace.
Wide-ranging in study, enthusiasm, and geography, Under the Stars unearths an unlimited inhabitants of nature seekers, a rustic nonetheless in love with its wild places.
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