Under the Stars – How America Fell In Love with Camping

Introduction

Whether hes camping nude in cougar country, being attacked by wildlife while glamping, or crashing a girls-only adventure for urban teens, Dan White seeks to animate the evolution of outdoor recreation. In the process, he demonstrates how the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Roosevelt, and Muiralong with visionaries such as Adirondack Murray, Horace Kephart, and Juliette Gordon Lowhelped blaze a trail from Transcendentalism to Leave No Trace.

Wide-ranging in research, enthusiasm, and geography, Under the Stars reveals a vast population of nature seekers, a country still in love with its wild places.