num_pages: 160
description: Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for Literature 1984, and named one of the twentieth century's best nonfiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Klamath Knot, originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1983, is a personal vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology." David Rains Wallace uses his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region to ponder the role of evolution and myth in our culture. The author's new epilogue makes a case for the creation of a new park to safeguard this exceptionally rich storehouse of relict species and evolutionary stories, which has largely been bypassed by conservationists since John Muir.
language: English
title: The Klamath Knot
titlecomplete: The Klamath Knot
genres: Science, Travel, Nonfiction, History, Nature, Natural History, Environment
ratings_count: 150
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: John Burroughs Medal, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: California Book Award
category: Californiana (Silver)
publisher: Sierra Club Yolla Bolly Press book