The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness
This book is a collection of previously published essays (in Harper's magazine, among others) by poet/nature essayist Haines on life in the Alaskan wilderness. Each of the chapters can be read as an independent essay, but Haines's pervading theme is of a wilderness that is both unchanging and changed greatly over the centuries. Snow, the trees, and the animals are records of what has happened before. The book's philosophical underpinnings are much more subtle than Sam Wright's Koviashuvick: A Time and Place of Joy ( LJ 3/15/89). Haines's descriptions of the wilderness are easier to picture, and the reader feels the experience more personally. Recommended for general audiences.- Mary J. Nickum, Fish and Wildlife Reference Svce., Bethesda, Md.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.