Mark Woods. (2016). Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Mark Woods. 2016. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

Mark Woods. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

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"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality—and their power to heal." —Ken Burns
Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks.
On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter.
But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer, given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.

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   • source: Wade Rouse, author of At Least In the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream and America's Boy
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     "A love letter to family and our national parks that is as big as a son's heart, as beautiful as the night sky and as stunning as the American landscape."

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   • source: Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood's Walk
   • content: "Lassoing the Sun is a beautifully written reminder that we leave pieces of ourselves -- of our families -- in national parks. Woods shows us that they're never lost, just held by the wilderness for safekeeping. We find them when we return."
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   • source: Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
   • content: "Lassoing the Sun is a history lesson that feels like a conversation with an old friend. But more importantly, it is a story of memory, loss, love, solitude, and rediscovering our own compass."
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     July 1, 2016
     

     Woods (columnist, Florida Times-Union) received a grant to write about the future of national parks. His goal was to visit one destination a month for a year and then write a book about his travels. He hoped to revisit some of the parks that his family had traveled to when he was a child, and to bring his mother, wife, and daughter with him on parts of his journey. But shortly after he starts, his mother is diagnosed with cancer and given months to live. Woods intertwines the story of coming to terms with his mother's death and the legacies families inherit and the ones left behind. The author's original plan to travel with her cancelled, he attempts to pass on his love of the outdoors to his eye-rolling preteen daughter. VERDICT This travel memoir will appeal to readers who love the outdoors. Those who would rather stay inside with a good book will be touched by the story of a mother and son saying their goodbyes.--Susan Belsky, Oshkosh P.L., WI

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Newspaper columnist Woods set out to spend a year visiting U.S. national parks in an effort to reinvigorate his childhood love of the outdoors and get out of a bit of a rut. He decided to go to 12 parksone a month, each symbolizing a different issue facing the national parks in the next 100 years. With trips planned from Acadia in Maine to Saguaro in Arizona, Yellowstone, Cumberland Island National Seashore, and Haleakala in Hawaii, he envisioned a chronicle blending history, geography, and nature. But then Woods' mother received a devastating diagnosis, and his hoped-for delightful, insightful exploration of America transformed into a narrative about family and memory that puts trite notions of quality time to shame. As he doggedly continues his project while seeing his mother at every turn (and struggling with guilt when he is not with her), Woods makes a clear case for the significant power of the parks on our collective and personal psyches. A deeply heartfelt story about why the national parks remain so integral to the American story.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter.
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