Navigations [Paperback]

Ted Kerasote (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (April 23, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394759931
• ISBN-13: 978-0394759937
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,563,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ted Kerasote is the author of many books, including the national bestseller "Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog" and "Out There: In The Wild in a Wired Age", which won the National Outdoor Book Award. His essays and photographs have appeared in Audubon, Geo, Outside, Science, The New York Times, and more than sixty other periodicals. Focusing on the interrelationship between people and nature, Ted's writing continues to take him from the Arctic to Africa and many places in between. His home, and the place he finds his peace and inspiration, remains Jackson Hole, the high valley that lies between the Teton and Gros Ventre mountains in northwestern Wyoming.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A true nature lover, April 3, 2008

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This review is from: Navigations (Paperback)

I read this after enjoying Merle's Door and was surprised to find writing of a higher level; MD was solidly written, but some of this book is quite poetic. Composed of various magazine articles and some essays written for the book, Navigations details fishing, skiing and other expeditions in the North and South Americas with much insight on the places and the author himself.

The book stands out due to Kerasote's often quite brutal self-awareness, as in The Straight Edge where he chronicles his marriage falling apart in context of his nature/travel writing. In this and the essays about Ted almost but not quite catching a record fish in Costa Rica and feeling lonely but alive in Alaska, one is spared the typical heroics of many outdoor writers and instead gets a truly personal account of the wanderings of a man who clearly worships and is at home in real wilderness. There are also moments of deep connection with the planet and these lead to some very moving passages and beautiful lines.

Well worth reading.