Download e-book for kindle: Steep Passages: A World-wide Eco-Adventurer Unlocks Nature's by David Lee Drotar

By David Lee Drotar

"Life's transitions are often icy, usually frightening. The extra we predict approximately them, the tougher they seem," writes David Lee Drotar during this number of penetrating essays.

Steep Passages skillfully attracts parallels among the flora and fauna and the folk who're discovering their manner via it. even if describing the bizarre reproductive mechanisms of lizards within the Galapagos Islands or chronicling his September eleven reports at the Rideau canal in Canada, Drotar's enticing tales yield shock and which means round each bend within the trail.

At a time while we are all much less definite approximately the place our lives are headed, Steep Passages takes us on a literary trip that's destined to turn into a vintage of contemporary nature writing. From the ski slopes of recent England to the mountain bazaars of Africa, Drotar weaves strong sensory pictures, background and metaphor in a virtually mystical narrative that crosses all cultural barriers and captures the essence of what it potential to be human.

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