On The Banks Of The Animas

Born with an innate love of the outdoors, Murphy began his adventuring into wild lands at the age of nine. These twenty-two personal experience essays journal the author's 45 years of excursions into the mountains, deserts, hardwood forests, and atolls of such places as Alaska, Wyoming, British Columbia, and the South Pacific. As a recreationalist, a newspaper writer, and an Emmy Award winning producer/cameraman, the author immerses you into these places alongside him. A little bit Wilderness How-To, Travel Journal, and Personal Memoir, if you enjoy adventure stories that include humorous slice of life observations, harrowing escapes from tragedy, personal transformation, and the firsthand study of nature and its defense, this is the book for you.