Research Catalog

Title

Halflives : reconciling work and wildness / Brooke Williams.

Author

Williams, Brooke.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press ; Covelo, Calif. : Shearwater Books, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xiii, 191 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "As a member of a prominent Salt Lake City family and a direct descendant of Mormon pioneer Brigham Young, Brooke Williams was born into a carefully scripted life. He would study hard, be involved with his church and community, and follow in the footsteps of three previous generations to work in the family business. And that is what he did."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Yet despite his outward signs of success, Williams was not satisfied. His deep love of the outdoors and insatiable desire to experience wild nature made living the life expected of him an ongoing struggle. He escaped at every opportunity into wildness, deliberately seeking risky ski routes and long, lonely runs. Realizing he was drowning emotionally and unable to bring his "halflives" together, he grew increasingly frustrated as the gap between his two worlds expanded."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Halflives is the story of Brooke Williams' personal journey - balancing the expectations of family and society, and the needs and desires of his heart. He identifies a balance we all must strike between our cultural obligations and the strong pull toward wildness that our evolutionary heritage exerts on the human psyche."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Williams, Brooke
• Philosophy of nature

Note

• "A Shearwater book"--Half t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

1559635770 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99033863

OCLC

ocm41991268

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries