The Last Empty Places (51 page)

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P
ETER
S
TARK
has written about “blank spots”—the remote and wild places of the world—for many years. A correspondent for
Outside
, Stark has undertaken travels and assignments to Tibet, Manchuria, Greenland, Antarctica, Afghanistan, Iceland, Irian Jaya, the Sahara Desert, and by kayak down the unexplored Lugenda River of Mozambique, a country where he and his young family later lived for a year. His articles have appeared in
Smithsonian
and
The New Yorker
and have been anthologized in
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
. His books include
At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness
and
Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
, as well as a collection of essays,
Driving to Greenland
. He is also the editor of an anthology of writings about the Arctic,
Ring of Ice
. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and their two children.

Copyright © 2010 by Peter Stark

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Stark, Peter
The last empty places: a past and present journey through the blank spots on the American map / Peter Stark.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52190-3
1. United States—Description and travel.   2. Stark, Peter—Travel—United States.   3. United States—History, Local.   4. United States—Geography.   5. Wilderness areas—United States.   6. Wilderness areas—Social aspects—United States—History.   I. Title.
E169.Z83S685 2010      973—dc22      2010009942

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS:
Excerpts from
Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire
by Marybeth Lorbiecki, copyright © 2005 by Marybeth Lorbiecki.
Reprinted by permission of Globe Pequot Press.

OREGON HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
: Excerpts from emigrant journals that appeared in “Cut-Off Fever: Part IV and Part V” in the September 1977 and December 1977 issues.
Reprinted by permission of
Oregon Historical Quarterly
.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:
Excerpts from
A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River
by Aldo Leopold, copyright © 1949, 1953, 1966 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
: Excerpts from
The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539
by Adolf Bandelier, translated by Madeleine Turrell Rodack, copyright © 1981 Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.

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