
Headed Into the Wind
A Memoir
Jack Loeffler(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2019
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8263-6100-4 (ISBN)
Description
With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats in the wake of Manifest Destiny. Working both as an individual and with comrades--including Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder--he was part of an early coterie of counterculturalists and environmentalists who fought to thwart the plunder of natural resources in the Southwest. Loeffler, a former jazz musician, fire lookout, museum curator, bioregionalist, and self-taught aural historian, shares his humor and imagination, his adventures, observations, reflections, and meditations along the trail in his retelling of a life well lived. In this honest memoir, he advises each and every one of us to go skinny-dipping joyfully in the flow of Nature to better understand where we're headed.
Reviews / Votes
Over these pages, we relive Loeffler's life and learn why he might honestly come to the Title of America's most interesting and thoughtful man." - Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert GraveMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
21 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-6100-4 (9780826361004)
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E-Book
09/2019
Simon + Schuster LLC
€9.88
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Person
Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, environmentalist, writer, radio producer, and sound-collage artist. He is the author of many books, including Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West, Survival Along the Continental Divide: An Anthology of Interviews, and Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey (all from UNM Press).