The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier, North America's biggest volcano, looms over Seattle like an invitation to... adventure? Disaster? Discovery? It's all of the above for Bruce Barcott, a Seattle writer who captures the  mountain from multiple angles in this luminous biography that defines Rainier's landscape to be like none  other on the continent. By turns witty and introspective, Barcott's trip to the top of the glacier-clad peak is  filled with history, scientific observation, and a divided personal attachment that struggles to make sense of  the mountain and its effect on the surrounding land and people.The Measure of a Mountainis a  literate, entertaining view of a totemic Northwest landmark.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.