THE LAST EMPTY PLACES: A PAST AND PRESENT JOURNEY THROUGH THE BLANK SPOTS ON THE AMERICAN MAP

Book ID/图书代码： 01240010B37394

English Summary/英文概要： Americans have shaped the idea of wilderness, and it has shaped us. The Last Empty Places is one man’s love letter to the enduring American wild, where our country’s character was forged and its destiny set in motion.

Memories of growing up in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods inspired writer Peter Stark to seek out untouched tracts of the American wilderness. What he discovered in these “blank spots” on the U.S. map is that these places are actually teeming with the rich history of our nation.

Stark journeys into the great wild to four of the emptiest expanses he can find—northern Maine, central Pennsylvania, the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, and southeast Oregon—and in so doing weaves together a majestic and dramatic tale of frontiersmen and fighters, naturalists and philosophers, émigrés and natives. But he also goes beyond that, acknowledging to some of the great minds that first framed our relationship to the wilderness that would become our home—passionate thinkers and writers including Thoreau, Emerson, and John Muir.

The result is a narrative that blends nature and history in a vivid new way, a tale that provides an unforgettable window into our country’s past and present.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美国人都有荒芜的概念，现在我们也有了。本书是一个男人给美国荒野的情书，书里，美国人的特征是固定的，命运是变化的。
作者成长于康斯威辛树林木屋的记忆给了他创作的灵感，抓取了不曾涉足的美国荒原足迹。他在美国地图上发现的空地实际上充满了我们国家悠久富饶的历史。
作者找到了四个最空旷的地方，有梅恩北部、宾夕法尼亚中部、新墨西哥荒野以及俄勒冈东南，亲身涉足，编织了一部充满戏剧性的故事，一部关于太空陆战队、斗士、自然主义者、哲学家、本土人。但他的探索不止于此，他还了解了一些首先定义我们和荒野关系并使之成为我们的家的伟大人物，那些热情的思想家包括梭罗、爱默生和约翰。
结果用记叙的新兴方式生动结合了自然和历史，为我们国家的过去和当下开启了一扇难忘的窗户。(兼职翻译-夏佳佳)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•斯达克（Peter Stark）是《最后一口气》（Last Breath）和《河流的仁慈》（At the Mercy of the River）的作者。他是自由作家，是《外面》（Outside）的通讯员，也为《斯密森人》（Smithsonian）和《纽约人》（The New Yorker）写稿。他曾被提名国家杂志架，写过一册散文合辑《开车前往格林兰岛》（Driving to Greenland）。他是一本关于北极的文选《冰轮》（Ring of Ice）的编辑。

Peter Stark is the author of Last Breath and At the Mercy of the River. He is a freelance writer, a correspondent for Outside, and has written for Smithsonian and The New Yorker. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and has written a collection of essays, Driving to Greenland. He is the editor of an anthology of writing about the Arctic titled Ring of Ice.

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