Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Narratives

For some outdoor enthusiasts, the word “wilderness” means “free of people”. This book shows that many beloved stories of outdoor adventure forget that people have lived in and with the natural spaces of North America since long before Europeans arrived. When we read Western narratives in partnership with Indigenous authored narratives, a new paradigm of human-nature relations begins to emerge.

Divided into three sections, the book creates a conversation between texts by non-Indigenous and In...