num_pages: 416
description: An irreverent history of American campingFrom the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthandand sometimes face firsthow the American wilderness transformed from the devils playground into a source of adventure relaxation and renewal.Whether hes camping nude in cougar country being attacked by wildlife while glamping or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson Thoreau Roosevelt and Muiralong with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray Horace Kephart and Juliette Gordon Lowhelped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.Wide-ranging in research enthusiasm and geography Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers a country still in love with its wild places.
language: English
title: Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.