ASIN: B00I51Z1IM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 375
A work of creative nonfiction focused on the Oregon coast - her natural and human history - illustrated with over 160 photographs by the author. From the jacket: When the consumerist lifestyle collapses as it always must, a lone travel- er stumbles onto The Road to experience a life on its peripheries, next to The Edge itself: the Oregon Coast, where Lewis and Clark and The Corps of Discovery planted their flag in the sand and turned around to go Home. The flag marks the place where the story begins – or perhaps not.Henry David Thoreau discovered the trailhead but left the trail itself unmapped. A walk in this forest will not be the same in one hundred years, the experience marred by threats of over-harvesting and erosion, global environmental change, and locally and regionally invasive species. The still- ness that soothed Thoreauis still Magic balm for the modern mind, but remains ...
