In Search of a Wild America: If true wilderness still exists, should it really be so hard for most of us to find it?(Return to Wild America : A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul by Scott Weidensaul)(Book Review)

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RETURN TO WILD AMERICA

A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

BY SCOTT WEIDENSAUL

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 394 pp., $26

Scott Weidensaul and I have never crossed paths, although our travels have taken us to many of the same places and our separate journeys have had similar purposes, both inspired by books written more than half a century ago. Set in motion by the late nature writer Edwin Way Teale's 1950 journey North With the Spring, I followed the spring season across North America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic. For his new book Weidensaul ...

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