Open midnight
Subtitle: where ancestors & wilderness meet
By: Brooke Williams
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781595348036
Subjects: Philosophy; Description and travel; Family; Travel; Intergenerational relations; Wilderness areas; Mormon pioneers; Biography
Description: "Two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Williams's year alone, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 traveled with a group of Mormons from England to the American West; intertwines ancestry, identity, philosophy, evolution, and our dependence on wilderness"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : San Rafael River, Utah; title: Castle Valley, Utah; title: Severn River, Shrewsbury, England; title: Solitude Wash, Book Cliffs, Utah; title: Aboard the Cynosure, Atlantic Ocean; title: Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert, Utah; title: Big Draw, Canyonlands National Park, Utah; title: Platte River, Somewhere in Middle America; title: Musée d'Orsay, Paris; title: Recapture Creek, Utah; title: Dead Horse Point, Utah; title: Three Crossings, Wyoming; title: Epilogue : Colorado River, Dream Water.