num_pages: 320
description: Many childhood summers Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Marks most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains woods and fireflies in places like Redwood Yosemite and Grand Canyon national parks.On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter.But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family the parks the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.
language: English
title: Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books