Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness

by Doug Peacock

Overview

Peacock's eagerly awaited tale brings us epic personalities, grizzly bears, the trauma of war, and wilderness adventure. A former Green Beret medic in Vietnam, he was mythologized by Edward Abbey as George Washington Hayduke in his environmental classic, The Monkey Wrench Gang. Described by author David Quammen as "an iconic figure, a secular prophet, in the wildass American West," Peacock has become celebrated for his writing, in particular his book Grizzly Years, and his tireless struggle to help preserve what is wild both in and around us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780910055994
Publisher:	Lynx House Press
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

With his wife, the writer Andrea Peacock, Doug Peacock lives and writes in Livingston, Montana. His many books include The Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness; Baja; The Best of Edward Abbey; The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears; In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene.

What People are Saying About This

Philip Caputo

Doug Peacock is a direct literary descendant of Thoreau, with a few genes from Audubon and his mentor Edward Abbey. . . . His meditations on war and wilderness are painfully apt today.

Jim Harrison

Peacock’s life makes nearly all of the environmental movement look like an upper-class bridge tournament. In Walking it Off, we have the heart and soul , more exactly the blood and guts, of a man who has given his life to the defense of nature, intermixed with the story of his dearest friend and mentor, Ed Abbey.

Terry Tempest Williams

What moves me most about Doug Peacock is his willingness to be vulnerable—which is why we both laugh and cry through his stories. This is what we are missing—an ethical path. Doug Peacock is a humble warrior, fearless and honest, with a heart as big as the wild country he loves.

Editorial Reviews

"Doug Peacock is a direct literary descendant of Thoreau, with a few genes from Audubon and his mentor Edward Abbey. . . . His meditations on war and wilderness are painfully apt today."—Philip Caputo

"Peacock's life makes nearly all of the environmental movement look like an upper-class bridge tournament. In Walking it Off, we have the heart and soul, more exactly the blood and guts, of a man who has given his life to the defense of nature, intermixed with the story of his dearest friend and mentor, Ed Abbey."—Jim Harrison

"What moves me most about Doug Peacock is his willingness to be vulnerable—which is why we both laugh and cry through his stories. This is what we are missing—an ethical path. Doug Peacock is a humble warrior, fearless and honest, with a heart as big as the wild country he loves."—Terry Tempest Williams

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