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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondack

door Bill McKibben

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The acclaimed author ofThe End of Naturetakes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes. Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermont’s Mt. Abraham, with a stunning view to the west that introduces us to the broad Champlain Valley of Vermont, the expanse of Lake Champlain, and behind it the towering wall of the Adirondacks. “In my experience,” McKibben tells us, “the world contains no finer blend of soil and rock and water and forest than that found in this scene laid out before me—a few just as fine, perhaps, but none finer. And no place where the essential human skills—cooperation, husbandry, restraint—offer more possibility for competent and graceful inhabitation, for working out the answers that the planet is posing in this age of ecological pinch and social fray.” The region he traverses offers a fine contrast between diverse forms of human habitation and pure wilderness. On the Vermont side, he visits with old friends who are trying to sustain traditional ways of living on the land and to invent new ones, from wineries to biodiesel. After crossing the lake in a rowboat, he backpacks south for ten days through the vast Adirondack woods. As he walks, he contemplates the questions that he first began to raise in his groundbreaking meditation on climate change,The End of Nature: What constitutes the natural? How much human intervention can a place stand before it loses its essence? What does it mean for a place to be truly wild? Wandering Homeis a wise and hopeful book that enables us to better understand these questions and our place in the natural world. It also represents some of the best nature writing McKibben has ever done.… (meer)
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Disappointing. Too much environmentalism-related talk (what else would you expect from McKibben!), not enough about the surroundings he was walking through. I've been through this area myself, and I just couldn't picture it from his descriptions. ( )
  MarkLacy | May 29, 2022 |
Great read about a beautiful section of the country and one that I've been lucky enough to live in and wander through for much of my life.

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  kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |
Although this book is written as a hike, the hike is just a setting used to go over deep thoughts, born of long experience, reading, and classes on complex but known topics about cooperation, global changes, and difficulties were are beginning to face. Much is negative but there are still many upbeat moments that give the author a sense that our human race could pull through and come out with a better world to live in, if we heed advice from those who have studied the problems we now face. ( )
  billsearth | Feb 7, 2018 |
An ok hiking memoir, with references to sustainability and environmental challenges. The author's rambling style first reminded me of William Burroughs, rather than John Burroughs, but I soon fell into stride. ( )
  Sandydog1 | Feb 9, 2014 |
Fantastic book. ( )
  hombredemaderas | Feb 6, 2014 |
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The acclaimed author ofThe End of Naturetakes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes. Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermont’s Mt. Abraham, with a stunning view to the west that introduces us to the broad Champlain Valley of Vermont, the expanse of Lake Champlain, and behind it the towering wall of the Adirondacks. “In my experience,” McKibben tells us, “the world contains no finer blend of soil and rock and water and forest than that found in this scene laid out before me—a few just as fine, perhaps, but none finer. And no place where the essential human skills—cooperation, husbandry, restraint—offer more possibility for competent and graceful inhabitation, for working out the answers that the planet is posing in this age of ecological pinch and social fray.” The region he traverses offers a fine contrast between diverse forms of human habitation and pure wilderness. On the Vermont side, he visits with old friends who are trying to sustain traditional ways of living on the land and to invent new ones, from wineries to biodiesel. After crossing the lake in a rowboat, he backpacks south for ten days through the vast Adirondack woods. As he walks, he contemplates the questions that he first began to raise in his groundbreaking meditation on climate change,The End of Nature: What constitutes the natural? How much human intervention can a place stand before it loses its essence? What does it mean for a place to be truly wild? Wandering Homeis a wise and hopeful book that enables us to better understand these questions and our place in the natural world. It also represents some of the best nature writing McKibben has ever done.

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