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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

by (Thomas Dunne Books)

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"A love letter to family and our national parks that is as big as a son's heart, as beautiful as the night sky and as stunning as the American landscape." -- Wade Rouse, USA Today-bestselling author

Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks.

On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter.

But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer, given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality -- and their power to heal." -- Ken Burns

"Earnest and heartfelt... captures how one family handles the joys and sorrows of life, with America's most beautiful landscapes standing in the background." -- Travel & Leisure

"A meditation on both personal and environmental legacy." -- Entertainment Weekly

"An extraordinary, beautifully crafted memoir that explores not just our national parks, but our places in them, our families, our legacies and the healing power of nature." -- The Mercury News

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  • Publication Date: June 14, 2016
  • Text-to-Speech: Disabled
  • Lending: Disabled
  • Print Length: 321 Pages
  • File Size: 28 KB

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