Camping with an Indian Pipe Holder, fending off a cabin-marauding red squirrel, and lobbying Congress in Minnesota's Hundred Years War over federal lands are stopovers on one man's search for wilderness. The author traces the evolution of wilderness as a personal perspective with a colorful cast of Northland characters offering their opinions on nature. Season of the Loon is an honest look at competing opinions on wilderness and the subcultures that provide them.
~Reviews~
"Henry David Thoreau would have nodded and chuckled over this book. In another time and another place, David Adams shows that the exploration of the wilderness-civilization dichotomy has universal and eternal relevance. From his special island, Adams probes both inward and outward to themes of transcendent importance. Here, in the great tradition of Sigurd Olson, are new ears listening to the lessons of the North Country."
~Professor
Roderick Frazier Nash, author,
Wilderness and the American Mind
"Brilliantly written, Season of the Loon celebrates the people and places that make the North Country unique. Rarely does one find such an important topic presented in such lucid prose. Adams' training as an anthropologist allows him to probe into the heart of wilderness politics. He shows that "green" special interest groups come in a variety of shades. From a lobby effort on Capital Hill to the dip of the canoe paddle on nameless lakes, Season of the Loon is a journey worth taking."
~Troy Peden, President, GoAbroad.Com
"Adams reminds us that wilderness yet cuts deep channels in the huma psyche. He invites us to go with these currents, reflect on the complexity of their conceptual swirls and eddies and finally reconsider the human place in the larger, older, wilder and endangered scheme of planetary life."
~Max Oelschlaeger, author, The Idea of Wilderness
"Season of the Loon arrives as welcome as the burst of sunshine after a thunderstorm. David Adams goes to the heart of fierce disputes over the future of our great northern forests, pitting the ecologist against the entrpreneur, the national wilderness movement agaisnt the local interest. Readers may question his conclusions or even his point of view, but they will return changed and challenged after accompanying Adams on his journey from motor-obsessed youth to the lonely figure canoeing through uncharted waters. And they will find surprises along the way."
~John Mosedale, (retired) CBS Evening News
Coming Soon. . .
Samsara
David Adams' new novel . . . set in the jungles of Thailand
