Rhythm of the Wild
A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
Globe Pequot Publishing · Print & ebook · April 1, 2021
From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park.
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- Who it’s for
- A Denali memoir where music, stories, and conservation share the same winding trail.
- Themes
- Alaska memoir and Denali, Conservation and environmental advocacy, Love story
- Genres
- Naturalists' Lives, Conservation, Wolves
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From Kim Heacox, the acclaimed author of The Only Kayak and John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire, comes Rhythm of the Wild, an Alaska memoir focused on Denali National Park. Music runs through every page of this book, as do stories, rivers and wolves. At its heart, Rhythm of the Wild is a love story. It begins in 1981 and ends in 2014, yet reaches beyond the arc of time. Author and mountaineer Jonathan Waterman has called Heacox “our northern Edward Abbey.”
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In this book we find out why. We hitchhike with Kim through Idaho, camp on the Colorado Plateau, and fly off the sand cliffs of Hangman Creek with a little terrier named Super Max, the Wonder Dog. We meet Zed, the Aborigine; Nine Fingers, the blues guitarist; and Adolph Murie, the legendary wildlife biologist, who dared to say that wolves should be protected, not persecuted. Kim also reprises in this book his friend Richard Steele, a beloved character from The Only Kayak. Some books are larger than their actual subject—this is one. Part memoir, part exploration of Denali’s inspiring natural and human history, and part conservation polemic, Rhythm of the Wild ranges from funny to provocative. It’s a celebration of—and a plea to restore and defend—the vibrant earth and our rightful place in it.
Wildness in Chorus
A Denali memoir where music, stories, and conservation share the same winding trail.
Come here for
- Alaska’s natural and human history, told through memoir
- Wolves, rivers, music, and stories in one lively mix
Expect
- A range from funny to provocative
- A celebration of the earth with a pointed conservation plea
Where it sits
| Conservation | 36% |
|---|---|
| Naturalists' Lives | 27% |
| Wolves | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Western U.S. History
- How Ecosystems Work
- Authors
- Kim Heacox
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Publishing
- Published
- April 1, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Alaska memoir and Denali · Conservation and environmental advocacy · Love story
- Reading lane
- Western U.S. History