num_pages: 139
description: Reflections on life and landscape expressed in elegant verse By the New York Times best-selling author of Snow Falling on CedarsBeautiful illustrated package Most outdoor enthusiasts understand the phrase turn around time as that point in an adventure when you must cease heading out in order to have enough time to safely return to camp or home--regardless of whether you have reached your destination. For award-winning novelist David Guterson it is also a metaphor for where we find ourselves in the middle of our lives and his new narrative poem explores this idea through a lyrical journey along a trail much like those in Washington's mountain ranges he hiked while growing up.Even outdoor-lovers who are not normally readers of poetry will relate to the physicality of hiking represented here from endless trail switchbacks to foot and ankle pains. There is a fast-moving propulsive quality to David's writing with lush language vivid imagery and pacing that resonates as a journey on foot. His words are brought further to life by the delicate yet mythical illustrations by award-winning artist Justin Gibbens.
language: English
title: Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest
publisher: Mountaineers Books