Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

By Mark Woods

Book Overview

"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal." --Ken Burns

For many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks.

On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter.

But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but Lassoing the Sun grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, and the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250105897
• ISBN13: 9781250105899
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"