{"product_id":"the-high-sierra-a-love-story","title":"The High Sierra: A Love Story","description":"Review\n\n\"The High Sierra is as beauteous as the landscape it pays homage to. It blends memoir, travel, geography history, and photography... Even if you never plan to scale the heights of this mountain range and glamping is more your style, there are many wonders to be found on the pages of this glorious paean to the great outdoors.\"--Oprah Daily\n\n\"[A] loose-limbed quality is what makes The High Sierra so appealing. But it's also something more. Robinson clearly accepts the limits of what nature writing can do, in his hands at least. After a stunning solo hike, he tries to describe it to a friend. But he discovers that 'a day like that can't be shared; that must not be what they are for...' Rationality is a word with a dry, ascetic feel to it. Perhaps reasonableness comes a little closer to the animating spirit of The High Sierra. That sounds strange, I know, for a book whose purpose is analyzing Robinson's \"crazy love\" of the mountains. But it's a way of getting at the wholeness of his complex approach to the natural world: inquisitive and emotional, thoughtful and immediate, long-range and short-range, drawing on all the variables in the human spirit.\"--Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Atlantic\n\n\"[A] multiplicity of perspectives makes The High Sierra an engaging read even if you've never been to California.\"--Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly\n\n\"Equally adept at writing about the distant past, the near future, and locales as far apart as Alpha Centauri and Orange County, Robinson is one of the most environmentally astute science fiction writers of his generation... Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, he gets the details right... The High Sierra brims with useful information... Robinson is able to spot what distinguishes an item--a geological specimen, a fellow traveler on the trail, a marmot sunning itself--and convey how it fits into the grander scheme of life in the Sierra. He communicates his observations without any kind of overblown mysticism, but with a deep sense of gratitude, an appropriate sense of wonder, and a welcome sense of humor... there are some truly harrowing maneuvers. When hair-raising events occur, the author describes the action lucidly and grippingly... Anyone who opens their heart to the mountains--veteran trekker, casual explorer, or complete neophyte--will be well rewarded by this singular book.\"--Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor\n\n\"I ached all over--metaphorically--when I finished Kim Stanley Robinson's love letter to the Sierra Nevada... a trek unto itself, dotted with scenes so precisely described you feel you're there... Robinson's ambitious book blends nature writing, memoir, history and philosophy... The book gives new dimension to the term \"immersive.\" Not only does Robinson communicate the wonder of the High Sierra, he makes a compelling argument for preserving places like it... Travel light. Watch your step. Look at the glaciers before they're gone.\"--Carlo Wolff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n\n\"The High Sierra is as sprawling and full of ups and downs as the Sierra Nevada itself, those majestic mountains... the memoir offers fast-paced and highly readable explorations of Sierra history, people, geography, geology and how the range's rocks can shift your mind... the book is most powerful for demonstrating how a mountain range, and its history, can inspire visions of the future.\"--Joe Mathews, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n\"[The High Sierra] has passion galore and glorious moments when science and poetry meet.\"--Jeff Van Der Meer, Washington Post\n\n\"A fascinating combination of memoir, travelogue, scientific overview, history and much more. Robinson cleverly breaks up his book into short chapters, interspersing these various strands with one another... This handsome volume is also generously illustrated, primarily with Robinson's own color photographs.\"--Norah Piehl, Bookreporter.com\n\n\"An invitation to an astonishing journey... Robinson is the reigning high priest of speculative science fiction, a m","brand":"Little, Brown US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40443358904405,"sku":"9780316593014N","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/61553696-96dc-4595-b541-0c437e34dde8.jpg?v=1670329630","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-high-sierra-a-love-story","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}