Mountains of the Great Blue Dream

Reid, Robert Leonard

Biographies & Memoirs

Perennial

New Mexico is a land with two faces. It is a land of enchantment, legendary for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. But it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexico—with all of its gifts and challenges—within. Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty. America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world. For anyone who has ever been moved by the incomparable beauty of New Mexico, for anyone concerned with the landscape in which all Americans live, America, New Mexico is an unforgettable book.

America, New Mexico

History

Americas

University of Arizona Press

New Mexico is a land with two faces. It is a land of enchantment, legendary for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. But it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexico—with all of its gifts and challenges—within. Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty. America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world. For anyone who has ever been moved by the incomparable beauty of New Mexico, for anyone concerned with the landscape in which all Americans live, America, New Mexico is an unforgettable book.

"People who know wildernessï¿½real wildernessï¿½know there is a dark side to the moon. This is a book about inner mountaineering, a perspective only an older climber can give."ï¿½Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind

Professionals & Academics

University of New Mexico Press

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Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

North Point Pr

The first and only anthology of writings about the Sierra. Contains selections from the first century-and-a-half of recorded history of the Sierra Nevada written by explorers, immigrants, poets, travelers, scientists, conservationists and mountain climbers. Here, of course, are Clarence King, John Muir, and David Brower, but also Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada

Wilderness Pr

Every year without fail in early April, caribou from the Yukon and Alaska make a journey to a small corner of Alaska to give birth to their young. The journey an ordeal of mountains and blizzards, of ravenous wolves, scant forage, and river crossings with ice chunks the size of pickup trucks is the longest migration of any land animal on earth. Despite it all, the females find their way to the calving grounds on the coast of the Beaufort Sea, deliver their calves in June, and then begin their long journey home. This is their story, told by an author who travels to the Arctic in his seventh decade to witness a few moments of this endless turning circle of birth and rebirth and to answer the question, What is the true nature of the North? Is it the good and generous land of which the Inuit sing, or, in the words of the Arctic explorer, Elisha Kent Kane, Horrible! Horrible! a dwelling place of darkness and death? Personal and profound, chock-full of adventure, literary references, natural history, and ecological concerns, Mr. Reid has written a memoir that is moving and poignant, evocative and cautionary. Arctic Circle is a book, in short, that no reader concerned with the fate of the Far North could resist.

Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou

Biological Sciences

David R. Godine, Publisher

A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn’t think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collection, Reid distinguishes himself from many science-based nature writers, using the natural world as a springboard for speculations and musings on the numinous and the sacred, injustice, homelessness, the treatment of Native Peoples in the United States, and what pushes mountaineers to climb. Ranging in their settings from eastern New Mexico to northern Alaska, Reid’s essays illustrate his belief that the American West is worth celebrating and caring for. Taking its title from an affecting speech given by renowned author Barry Lopez, Because It Is So Beautiful is a response to desperate questions surrounding America’s wildlands. Lopez’s words resonated with the young mountaineer-musician-mathematician Robert Leonard Reid, who was struggling to understand his relationship to the world, to find his vision as a writer. What he learned on that long-ago evening is knit throughout the nineteen pieces in the collection, which include essays from Reid’s previous books Arctic Circle, Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, and America, New Mexico; three essays that appear here in print for the first time; as well as revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Touchstone, The Progressive, and elsewhere.

Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West

Business & Money

Economics

Counterpoint

A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay "Calling Robert Reid an outdoor writer is like calling Thoreau a writer about pond camping." ―Robert Roper, author of Nabokov in America Ranging in their settings from eastern New Mexico to northern Alaska, Robert Leonard Reid’s essays illustrate his belief that the American West is worth celebrating and caring for. The nineteen pieces in Because It Is So Beautiful include essays from Reid’s previous books Arctic Circle, Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, and America, New Mexico; three essays that appear here in print for the first time; as well as revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Touchstone, The Progressive, and elsewhere.

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Mountains of the Great Blue Dream

America, New Mexico

America, New Mexico

Mountains of the Great Blue Dream

Mountains of the Great Blue Dream

A Treasury of the Sierra Nevada

Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou

Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West

Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West