On the Dark Side of the Moon : A Journey to Recovery
Overview
"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press" In the spring of 2000, Mike Medberry, a longtime advocate of conservation with American Lands, the Wilderness Society, and the Idaho Conservation League, suffered a stroke in the remote wilderness of the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. He was rescued after nearly a full day lying alone and contemplating death in one of the harshest yet most beautiful landscapes in the lower forty-eight states. Medberry was flown to a nearby hospital about the same time that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, on behalf of President Clinton, came to Craters of the Moon to support protecting three-quarters of a million acres as a unique national monument, a conservation effort in which Medberry himself had already been personally involved. This story interweaves Medberry's own struggle to speak, walk, and think with the struggle to protect this brutal, lava-bound, but for him gentle landscape. Medberry's recovery from the stroke and his struggle to protect Craters of the Moon is a story of renewal, restoration, accommodation, and, ultimately, of finding workable compromises to some of life's most difficult problems.
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- ISBN-13: 9780870045134
- ISBN-10: 087004513X
- Publisher: Caxton Press
- Publish Date: October 2012
- Dimensions: 8.54 x 5.58 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 165
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