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OverviewWelcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada's Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it's home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch--humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild--is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters's cat--not to mention his eccentric neighbors--adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch's small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael P Branch , David MarantzPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Library Edition ISBN: 9798212032001Publication Date: 20 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAt its best this book lends to Nevada the sort of sacred quality that good stories give to places. Reading it left me caring about a place I did not know and have never seen...This book fits in well with the hyperlocal tradition of nature writing. Branch knows about something beautiful and wants to share it. -- Western American Literature If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he'd write like this. -- High Country News Lyrical and subversive, the book is a rollicking celebration of living a joyously untamed life. An engagingly quirky collection. -- Kirkus Reviews There have been dozens of hermit-in-the-woods Walden-like memoirs and essay collections written since Henry David Thoreau's death, but few capture Thoreau's raw, stubborn love for the natural world with as much humor and honesty as Michael P. Branch's Rants From the Hill -- Chicago Tribune Author InformationMichael P. Branch is a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Raising Wild. He lives with his wife, Eryn, and daughters, Hannah Virginia and Caroline Emerson, in the western Great Basin Desert. David Marantz is an actor living in New York City. He has narrated eighty-five-plus titles since his first in 2011. He won an AudioFile Earphones Award for The Mind Club by Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray, and was nominated for an Audie Award for his contribution to the short story collection Rip-Off! As an actor he has worked on stage, film, and television. Summers often find him performing Shakespeare for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot on New York's Lower East Side and also in Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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