The West Will Swallow You: Essays

(Paperback)

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Locations covered in book:

Vermont: Lake Champlain, Camel's Hump, Green Mountains

Nevada: Sierra Nevada, Reno, Fernley, Lake Lahontan, Black Rock Desert, King Lear Peak, Jackson Mountains, Gerlach, Great Basin National Park, Loneliest Road, Zion National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Wheeler Peak, Capitol Reef National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Olympic Peninsula

California: San Francisco, Richmond, San Pablo Bay, Central Valley, Rocklin, Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, Twin Peaks, Union Square, Tank Hill, Financial District, Mt Sutro Open Space Reserve, Redwood, National and State Parks, Golden Gate Bridge/Park, Mt Tamalpais, Cole Valley, McLaren, Lake Merced, Goat Rock, Point Reyes, Pescadero, Sierra Miwok Territory, Lotowayaka, Palm Springs

Others: Kaibab Plateau (Arizona), Baltimore, Japan, Comancheria, Colorado, Grand Canyon, Tucson, Arizona, Utah, Red Rock Lakes (Montana)

Reviews

Although the adventures collected here range widely in terrain and tone, the western landscape is always front and centerfocusing on Arizonas remote Kaibab Plateau, where Tonino worked as a biologist studying raptor communities, in San Franciscos overgrown nooks and crannies and pigeon-flocked park benches, on ranches in Wyoming, at campsites in Nevada, in the mountains of Colorado, and in libraries and national monuments. Addison County Independent

Author Bio

Leath Tonino, a writer from Vermont, has also worked as a wildlife biologist in Arizona, a blueberry farmer in New Jersey, and a snow shoveler in Antarctica. He is the author of The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures and The West Will Swallow You, and his work has appeared in magazines such as Outside, Mens Journal, Orion, Tricycle, Utne Reader, and The Sun. When not at his desk, he roams North Americas libraries and wildlands.