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Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan

By Clinton Crockett Peters

Book information

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780820358543, 2020036096, 9780820358536
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1439146 bytes)
Series
Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-27 10:19:01
LCO010000Literary CriticismNAT024000NAT041000NatureNonfiction

Description

With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

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