The Last Season (Winner-National Outdoor Book Award) [B0954]

2007 PB in nice clean condition. "As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone."-Outside Magazine. Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada-mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A detective novel meets the backcountry. Definitely makes you want to go back and spend more time in the sierras!"; "A man truly in tune with the freedom and beauty of the mountains. A hero that never tooted his own horn and was never recognized for his accomplishments until he dead."; "This intriguing portrayal of the life, accomplishments, character, and death of Randy Morgenson was eloquently woven together. The Last Season imparts so much of what is the role of seasonal employees in the National Parks. As an employee mostly with the US Forest Service myself, I appreciated all of the narrative's history and details. The book is to be appreciated at its many levels of exploring human relationships and man's relationship to nature."; "If you love the outdoors, the mountains, poetry and imagery, you will love this book."