![]() ![]() Readers are left with an intimate sense of an intelligent if flawed man whose love of the mountains ended up costing him his marriage, his ambitions and his life. He does, however, succeed in creating an empathetic portrayal of Morgenson and a revealing look at the taxing, underappreciated calling to which he dedicated himself. Blehm's exhaustive research is impressive, although the author struggles to find the proper balance of background information and narrative pace, spending, for instance, an entire page on a peripheral reference to the California Conservation Corps when a sentence or two would have sufficed. From there, the narrative weaves the events of the ensuing search with descriptions of ranger life, tales of past incidents in the area and Morgenson's increasingly fraught personal history. Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. The book begins with the day Morgenson left his camp for a three-day patrol and then failed to make scheduled radio contact. ![]() His first book, The Last Season, was the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the greatest adventure biographies ever written. ) offers a thorough if cumbersome account of the life of Randy Morgenson, a National Park Service ranger in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains whose zeal gave way to disillusionment before he disappeared on duty in 1996, after 28 summers on the job (although his body was found, how he died remains a mystery). Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |