Rhythm of the wild : a life inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) and index.

"Rhythm of the Wild is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's longstanding relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska and a sister book to his 2005 Lyons Press book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist. Woven throughout the personal narrative are stories on the human and natural histories of Denali National Park, garnished with a conservation polemic, much as Edward Abbey did with Desert Solitaire and Rick Bass has done with numerous books. Heacox writes of Denali through an inspirational arc to show how a place can touch a life, even save a life, quietly, profoundly, day after day, year after year, and how that saving multiplied by millions of lives over a century makes the world a better place. Heacox makes the argument, through his beautiful and impassioned prose, that we must save these places so they in turn will save us. Denali National Park is the most accessible subarctic sanctuary in the world, and it has awakened millions of people to what's authentic, priceless, and true. Any serious student of spirituality and the American landscape must one day address his relationship with Alaska, and once in Alaska, he must confront Denali, the heart of the state, the state of the heart."--Dust jacket.