| Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan Contributor(s): Peters, Clinton Crockett (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820358533 ISBN-13: 9780820358536 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Literary Collections | Essays - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Mountains |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2020036096 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.7" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities? |