Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage Departures Series, 2014, originally published by Pantheon Books (1980), 288p.   At first pass, Tracks sounds like an Australian version of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild— but with camels: Young woman traverses wild lands in a bid for …

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David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, By Tom Turner, with a foreword by Bill McKibben. University of California Press, 2015. 308 pages.   David Brower was instrumental in saving many US lands from ruination, including: Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument, a free-flowing river in the Grand Canyon, Redwood National park, North Cascades …

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