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Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Dan White's Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places. From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand and sometimes face first how the American wilderness transformed from the devil's playground into a source of adventure, relaxation, and renewal. Whether he's camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while glamping, or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muir along with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Low helped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.

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The definitive book on camping in America...A passionate, witty, and deeply engaging examination of why humans venture into the wild. -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Dan White provides not only the history of camping, but also the present marked always by a love for the wild places that remain.-- Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home

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Dan White is the author of The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, an NCIBA bestseller and Los Angeles Times Discovery selection. He has taught composition at Columbia University and San Jose State University. He is the contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader and received his MFA from Columbia. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and daughter. Eric Michael Summerer is a voice actor and producer who has narrated numerous audiobooks as well as countless instructional recordings and video games. He earned an Audie Award nomination for Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke and won an AudioFile Earphones Award for Burning Chrome by William Gibson. Eric also cohosts the popular board-game podcast The Dice Tower.

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