{"product_id":"9780944383209","title":"Gila Descending: A Southwestern Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerein is the remarkable story of a 200-mile wilderness journey down the Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona. Traveling partly on foot, mostly by canoe, the author was accompanied by a hound dog and a tomcat. His trip is replete with whitewater thrills, and angling for trout, bass, and catfish; ruminations on the wilderness ethic, and the antics of two companions who promote humor, exasperation, and love. But besides being a modern-day excursion into the natural world, \u003ci\u003eGila Descending\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal odyssey as well; and little by little that story, too, is told. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGila Descending\u003c\/i\u003e is a joy to read. M. H. Salmon and his feisty animal co-pilots have enough chutzpah to keep us laughing; enough literary audacity to delight and educate; and enough love of land, water, and wilderness to stir the most hardened conscience.\"—John Nichols \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . a delightful book. No reader could ask for a finer river to read about than the Gila, or a better companion to explore it with than M. H. Salmon. May the Government (ugh!) and God (we hope) long preserve them both.\"—Edward Abbey \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As you join the author—and his coyote hound and tomcat—on a float trip down the Gila, you will find a unique companion: a hunter with an informed environmental conscience; a fisherman with the sense to know that catfish are as good as trout; a wry observer whose prose owes more to local speech and the elegant essays of Aldo Leopold than to the high-tech fodder in the yuppie monthlies. Above all, he is a passionate and original defender of wilderness \u003ci\u003ewith its hair on\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—Steve Bodio, \"Bodio's Review,\" \u003ci\u003eGray's Sporting Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"High-Lonesome Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034123649264,"sku":"9780944383209","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780944383209_p0.jpg?v=1763869974","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780944383209","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}