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Item Details
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ROGUE RIVER JOURNAL
A WINTER ALONE |
| By: |
John Daniel |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1593760515 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781593760519 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
14 April, 2005 |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Description: |
In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the results were handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a cabin in the Red River Gorge, and quit civilization for a proscribed time. The strictures set up were severe: no two-way human communications, no radio, no music, no news, no clocks, and no calendars. The award-winning writer left his wife behind and moved into a cabin sure to be snowed-in just after his arrival, where he lived in complete isolation until spring, without even his cat as a companion.He was intent on not hearing a human voice other than his own for the next six months. Thoreau's Journals were there, of course, for instruction and inspiration. In addition to the physical rigor of working in isolation, Daniel had assumed a hard spiritual task in deciding to live alone: to confront his now dead father. Rogue River Journal is the result, with writing as skilled as Jon Krakauer's? a remarkable memoir of both vivid present and past interwoven. |
| Synopsis: |
In November of 2000, after the Presidential election but before the final results were determined, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a cabin in the Red River Gorge, and quit civilization. The strictures were severe. No two-way human communications no radio, no music, no clocks or calendars, not even his cat. He would leave his wife behind and put himself into a cabin sure to be snowed-in just after his arrival, and he would live in complete isolation until spring.He was intent on not hearing a human voice other than his own for the next six months. Thoreau is never far away from ideas like these, and Thoreau's Journals had provided both instruction and inspiration. For in addition to the physical rigor of living in isolation, John Daniel intended to do spiritual work while living alone. A writer living alone is bound to write. And that he did. The result, The Rogue River Journal, is a remarkable memoir. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Basic Civitas Books |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2006 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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