Four Miles West of Nowhere: A City Boy's First Year in the Montana Wilderness
In Four Miles West of Nowhere, John Phillips delivers a Pythonesque travelog of his retirement from Michigan to remote Darby, Montana, (population475, no Starbucks, no traffic light). There, along the Continental Divide, Mother Nature sets out gasp-inducing scenery and also her best birds, bears, and brook trout. To this fauna-rich utopia Phillips adds broken snow plows, a reclusive ex-smuggler, threatening winters, electricity famines, and heartfelt ruminations about fly fishing, guns, survival, Darby's dress code (pre-owned grubby), forest fires, irritating neighbors, helpful neighbors, a voluptuous barber, Republicans (he found one good on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-941052-55-6
- EAN: 9781941052556
- Produktnummer: 37807001
- Verlag: Pronghorn Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 404 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.6 cm 750 g
- Gewicht: 750
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John Phillips has written for magazines for 45 years and is the former Executive Editor of Car and Driver. He has contributed to Harper's, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Elle, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Air & Space, and Sports Illustrated. He was the recipient of the Ken Purdy Award for journalism in 2007; enjoyed a one-on-one interview with Joe Biden; and is the author of the novel Slippery as well as the true-crime saga God Wants You to Roll. He lives with wife, Julie Gothrup, in Montana's Bitterroot Mountains.
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