The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins wi...
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Oct 28, 2009
Andy
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A collection of essays about the Yaak valley and nature by one of my favorite writers, Rick Bass. There are twelve essays about living in Yaak, one for each month. I found that his writing made me want to be outside and doing the things he does, which is a testament to his writing skill and his love of being away from it all
I found myself enjoying the writing about his visitors, his kids, his neighbors and occasionally got restless during his long narratives about his observations on More...
I found myself enjoying the writing about his visitors, his kids, his neighbors and occasionally got restless during his long narratives about his observations on More...
Aug 06, 2011
Mike
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Bass, noted storyteller and environmental activist, shares a month by month accounting of life in remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana. Both a journey and a journal, he recounts the day-to-day events of life in the midst of the truly wild. Lyrical, contemplative and loving, Bass invites you to share in the minor triumphs and misadventures of his family and leads you to appreciate all the small "grace moments" in any day, month, year. Compares well with Leopold's "A Sand Coun
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Jan 03, 2011
I couldn't finish this. It's a series of essays, one for each month of the year. I worked my way through the first several months and then had to put it down. On the surface, it seemed like a book I would enjoy: author lives in remote location and chronicles a year of the natural world around him. And I did like parts of it. However, I found Bass's prose too fanciful, overflowing with simile and metaphor, sentences stretching on just a bit too long. There was not enough solid narrative running u
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Nov 28, 2009
Marginalia2
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Rick Bass not only loves the wilderness, but he has an exceptional ability to make this reader, who lives in the crowded Northeast, yearn to see the Yaak Valley area of Montana. Each month is explored and my only complaint is that the months pass too quickly.
Dec 04, 2011
Skipr
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The sharpness of the seasons in the Montana Rockies as described by Bass is such a contrast with what I've known on the Gulf Coast. I'm sure I'd tire of snow from November to April - especially with the brutal cold of Montana. But the rapid change of it all - valleys to mountains, spring to summer, yellow larch to Douglas fir - I'd like to live there for one complete cycle. Bass occasionally gets a little too "literary" for my prosaic tastes, but overall his descriptions of a real wild
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Jun 29, 2009
Sue
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What a poetic look at a year in the northern Montana wilderness! I LOVED this book!
Feb 06, 2012
Matthew
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Jori gave me this book for my birthday. It chronicles a year of Bass's life living by a marsh in the Yaak valley of Montana. The chapters are divided into months. So each month of this year I will read the corresponding chapter.
Aug 26, 2010
I bogged down on this one. I've ripped right through most everything by Rick Bass I've read thus far, but I just couldn't make it through the second half of this book.
May 27, 2010
Tuck
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very nice, some of rick bass' most accessible work. you really get the feel of yak valley and the people, plants and animals who live there.
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