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Book SynopsisCurates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler- itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector - whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’ during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away.
Trade ReviewNo one listens to the Southwest like Jack Loeffler. This collection of essays constitutes a perfect guide to the life's work of an unsurpassed student of the Arid Lands. Here in one volume is a virtually complete account of the history of water and environmental issues in the American Southwest. Jack Loeffler is always arguing in favor of the great work of wild nature and the consciousness of serious nature scientists and scholars. He wrote a series of books, gave talks and lectures, climbed mountains and ran rivers, and knew everybody. Here is a lot of the story of those years--and we are lucky to have it."—Gary Snyder, author of
The Practice of the Wild: EssaysTable of Contents
- Prologue. Rambling Reflections of the Reservoir of Memory
- 1. Our Window: An Editorial--1972
- 2. The Practice of Aural History
- 3. Native Windows into the Natural World
- 4. Aldo Leopold in the Southwest
- 5. Averting Dystopia
- 6. LUCA's Dream
- 7. Conflicting Ideologies
- 8. Counterculture in the Land of Clear Light
- 9. In Praise of Restoration Ecology
- 10. Nature Abhors a Maximum
- 11. A Sonoran Illumination
- 12. Thinking Like a Watershed
- 13. The Colorado River Compact Is 100 Years Old
- 14. On Direct Action
- 15. A Case for Naturist Anarchism
- 16. Naturizing Consciousness
- 17. Seeking Coherence
- 18. Lingering Speculations
- Conclusion. Invigorating Metamorphosis
- Acknowledgments
