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"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago,…
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As a veteran of 40+ years as a camp counselor and teacher of primitive survival skills, I loved this book for taking me back into that magic of the summer camp setting.
Oddly, I never attended a camp in my youth, largely because my family was never drawn toward nature. Somehow, I was born with an ineffable love of the forest, and as an adult, I found my calling as a teacher in the wilderness, even running my own summer camp in the mountains of Georgia.
This book’s setting in the Smoky Mountains is close to home. The relationships in…
From Mark's list on Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child’s immersion into wilderness.
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