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The Last Empty Places

A Journey Through Blank Spots on the American Map

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The Last Empty Places

By: Peter Stark
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
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Part travel adventure, part history, part exploration

In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska, and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania, that lies only a short distance from the East's big cities; the haunting canyons of Central New Mexico; and the vast, arid basins of Southeast Oregon.

Stark discovers that the places he visits are only "blank" in terms of a lack of recorded history. In fact, each place holds layers of history, meaning, and intrinsic value and is far from being blank. He also finds that each region has played an important role in shaping our American idea of wilderness through the influential "natural philosophers" who visited these places and wrote about their experiences—Henry David Thoreau, William Bartram, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold. It's a fascinating look at the value of nature, the ways humans use and approach it, and what it means to seek out empty places in today's world.

©2010 Peter Stark, Afterword copyright 2023 by Peter Stark (P)2023 Tantor
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Great history and recounts of his own adventures. Sometimes the transition from one story to another was blurred, but okay. Historical data was informative and interesting.

A collection of the writer’s adventures and historical events

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I loved how he intertwined his current location with all the history in that area is quite fascinating.

fun trip thru history

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