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A reflection on man's relationship to nature and work, American history and the movement into the West, the desire to impose order and the contrary impulse for unmediated experience, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the influence of the Mormon Church, and the antagonistic relationship of American capitalism to sound ecological management.

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The book opens up a world of fact and science and mathematics in a way that finds the spiritual and the metaphysical, the political and the philosophical, lurking in the midst of numbers and measurements and calculations.... Hales engages us both emotionally and intellectually. This is creative nonfiction at its best, this artful union of fact and experience and memory.... Line by line, the writing is wonderful, and individual sections are as fine as any from writers such as Edward Abbey or Annie Dillard. - Lee Martin, author of From Our House: A Memoir

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      Publisher: University of Missouri Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826216168, 978-0826216168
      ISBN10: 0826216161
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A reflection on man's relationship to nature and work, American history and the movement into the West, the desire to impose order and the contrary impulse for unmediated experience, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the influence of the Mormon Church, and the antagonistic relationship of American capitalism to sound ecological management.

      Trade Review
      The book opens up a world of fact and science and mathematics in a way that finds the spiritual and the metaphysical, the political and the philosophical, lurking in the midst of numbers and measurements and calculations.... Hales engages us both emotionally and intellectually. This is creative nonfiction at its best, this artful union of fact and experience and memory.... Line by line, the writing is wonderful, and individual sections are as fine as any from writers such as Edward Abbey or Annie Dillard. - Lee Martin, author of From Our House: A Memoir

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