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The High Sierra: A Love Story

by Kim Stanley Robinson
Little, Brown. May 2022. 560p. ISBN 9780316593014. $40. MEMOIR
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After a lifetime exploring the Sierras, Robinson (Ministry for the Future) shares his love of the mountains in this memoir/travel guide. Organized into eight categories (“My Sierra Life”; “Geology”; “Sierra People”; “Snow Camping”; “Names”; “Moments of Being”; “Routes”; “Swiss Alps”), Robinson’s knowledge and adoration of the Sierra’s reverberate. His stories highlight some misadventures, like how he and his friends dropped acid on his first backpacking trip. Once, on a winter camping trip, Robinson’s camp stove blew up in front of him. Robinson writes that these adventures were atypical; most days were like “walking through a giant open-air museum,” in a “gentle wilderness.”
VERDICT Robinson’s writing is clear, fun, and filled with joy for time spent in the mountains. This lengthy memoir will appeal to fans of Robinson and the Sierras.
Reviewed by Margaret Atwater-Singer, Univ. of Evansville Lib., IN , Apr 01, 2022
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