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The Book Of Yaak

The Book Of Yaak

Current price: $16.99
Publication Date: September 15th, 1997
Publisher:
Mariner Books
ISBN:
9780395877463
Pages:
208
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Description

The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save it from the forces threatening it now. The Yaak does have one trick up its sleeve, though: a writer to give it voice. In Winter Rick Bass portrayed the wonder of living in the valley. In The Book of Yaak he captures the soul of the valley itself, and he shows how, if places like the Yaak are lost, we too are lost. Rick Bass has never been a writer to hold back, but The Book of Yaak is his most passionate book yet, a dramatic narrative of a man fighting to defend the place he loves.

About the Author

RICK BASS’s fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his memoir, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Praise for The Book Of Yaak

"Bass is never better than when he is writing from deep within his passion to save the Yaak." The Los Angeles Times

"A passionate, informative recounting of one man's attempt to save a very special piece of the natural world" Dallas Morning News —