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Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carolyn Highland
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 177,Width 127
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Pets and the Natural World
Sports and outdoor recreation
Cycling
Active outdoor pursuits and Survival Skills
Tramping
Climbing and mountaineering
Orienteering
Caving and potholing
Camping and woodcraft
ISBN/Barcode 9781771604499
Audience
General
Illustrations NA (no illustration)

Publishing Details

Publisher Rocky Mountain Books
Imprint Rocky Mountain Books
Publication Date 22 October 2020
Publication Country Canada

Description

Carolyn Highland's outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to "get outside" and experience all that the natural world has to offer. Out Here is a collection of essays that explores what the wilderness has to teach us about the human experience, using outdoor endeavours as extended metaphors for greater truths. Each carefully chosen piece embarks on a different physical and metaphorical journey: managing expectations and reality during a medical emergency in a 40-mile ski mountaineering race; staring down fear and consequences on exposed ski lines in Alaska; re-examining self-reliance and decision-making through heartbreak and snow science; and leaving room for unexpected magic as a female travelling through Patagonia. Highland's first book inspires a deeper connection to the wilderness, a deeper connection to ourselves, and will leave readers wanting more from this fresh new voice in mountain writing.

Author Biography

Carolyn Highland is a writer and teacher with over 50 published essays in print and online, in publications such as Backcountry Magazine, The Ski Journal, A Worthy Expedition: The History of NOLS, Misadventures Magazine, The Leader, and the web-sites of Teton Gravity Research and the Outdoor Womens Alliance, among others. She is a regular contributing writer to the Deuter blog and the NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) blog. Her writing has also been used in course readers on expeditions through NOLS, the Prescott College Outdoor Program, the Second Nature Wilderness Program, and NatureBridge. Carolyn received a BA in creative non-fiction writing from Northwestern University in 2012. Her essay Parentage won the Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Personal Essay from Northwesterns English department that same year. She lives in Truckee, California, USA