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Greg Davis's avatar

Thank you, Nia! Speaking of wild and its relationships with civilization, Julian Hoffman's _Irreplaceable_ is wonderful, as is _Wildness: Relations of People and Place_, edited by Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I have *got* to read Irreplacable. I keep almost ordering it and then looking at my to-read pile and then not. But everyone whose opinion I trust has spoken highly of it. And Gavin Van Horn, whose work I read on the Center for Humans and Nature site but I haven't gotten his books. (Sarah Boon also did an interview with him for Undark: https://undark.org/2019/03/15/five-questions-for-gavin-van-horn/)

Thank you for the nudge!

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Paul Beiser's avatar

Another wonderful read, thank you! I think Chaney’s core point is an excellent one, something I had not thought of or considered! Have you read Jack Turner’s “The Abstract Wild”? I read it many years ago and it had a big impact on me, esp his distinction between “wild” and “wilderness”. I spent my childhood as you did with no shoes, and “free” is a lovely way to describe it!

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

That is one of my touchstone books! I love “The Abstract Wild” and keep going back to it. I actually used a quote from an interview with Jack Turner for the opening of the final chapter in my book, about how if he had one day left he’d spend it just walking around outside 💗😌

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Paul Beiser's avatar

So cool! I'm over 1/2 way through your book, I can't wait to run into that! Jack was quite a person. I was staying at the Climber's Ranch in WY awhile back, and kept looking for him (he was a guide at that time) to sign my book. Alas, no luck.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

That would have been lovely. I'm reminded of the time I met Pete Seeger at a little art gallery thing in Beacon, New York, and didn't realize who he was until I'd left. Been kicking myself ever since because I'd carried around something in my purse for years in the hopes of running into him.

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Paul Beiser's avatar

What a great memory!

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

Still wish I'd realized who he was!

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