Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0374514313 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1980
Depicts the problems which ensue when a mining engineer, a resort developer, and a civil engineer alternately confront a militant conservationist
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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
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