That Wild Country, Mark Kenyon
That Wild Country, Mark Kenyon
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That Wild Country
An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands

Author: Mark Kenyon

Narrator: Mark Kenyon

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/01/2019

Synopsis

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes—America’s public lands.Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land trust in the world. These vast expanses provide a home to wildlife populations, a vital source of clean air and water, and a haven for recreation.Since its inception, however, America’s public land system has been embroiled in controversy—caught in the push and pull between the desire to develop the valuable resources the land holds or conserve them. Alarmed by rising tensions over the use of these lands, hunter, angler, and outdoor enthusiast Mark Kenyon set out to explore the spaces involved in this heated debate, and learn firsthand how they came to be and what their future might hold.Part travelogue and part historical examination, That Wild Country invites readers on an intimate tour of the wondrous wild and public places that are a uniquely profound and endangered part of the American landscape.

About Mark Kenyon

Mark Kenyon is a lifelong outdoorsman, a nationally published outdoor writer, and one of the hunting and fishing community’s most prominent voices through his podcast, Wired to Hunt. His writing has appeared in Outdoor Life and Field & Stream, and he is a leading contributor to MeatEater, Inc., an outdoor lifestyle company founded on the belief that a deeper understanding of the natural world enriches all our lives. That Wild Country is his first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dee on November 01, 2019

Years ago, I was fortunate to be on an overseas trip, visiting friends and taking in the sights of England and Scotland. I marveled at the age of buildings sometimes twice as old as the settlement site in Jamestown, sadly thinking that we didn’t have anything like that in America. How wrong I was. It......more

Goodreads review by Carol Holdcraft on November 08, 2019

This historic overview of our national public lands was a great read. As a seventy year old female nature lover and birder, I was unsure if I would relate to this young hunter and fisherman's story. But one chapter into it I was hooked! He vividly describes his journeys into some well known as well as......more

Goodreads review by Bonnye Reed on December 17, 2019

I received a free electronic copy of this excellent history of America's Public Lands on December 5, 2019, from Netgalley, Mark Kenyon, and Little A Publishing. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. Kenyon brings to us all the many reasons our public lands are worth fighting for, and det......more

Goodreads review by Robert on June 19, 2020

Kenyon capably follows the history of public lands in The United States and that section really becomes the highlight of the entire book. From there the personal anecdotes are woven with figures and opinions that are structured to support the authors view of public land, which would largely seem to......more

Goodreads review by Diane on August 09, 2022

I loved reading about the history of the public lands and the park descriptions. I hope to visit them all in my lifetime. But I did get bogged down in the minutiae of his trips. I would have appreciated more highlights from the parks themselves, particular must see trails and sites.......more

Quotes

“Kenyon’s writing and traveling style are equally companionable…he evokes in his prose an appealing sense of shared experience…a strong argument for why two often politically opposed factions, hunters and environmentalists, should come together under the #KeepItPublic banner…succeeds in making the political simultaneously personal and universal.” —Publishers Weekly“An intimate escape for adventure seekers.” —Seattle PI“America’s public lands are under assault, from chronic underfunding, development interests, invasive species, and climate change, among other threats. Against this backdrop, Mark Kenyon eloquently explores how many of these public lands came to be, and why they are more important today than ever. That Wild Country is more than a lesson; it is a personal journey of discovery to which all public-lands users, from hikers and boaters to hunters and anglers, can relate.” —Whit Fosburgh, president and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

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