David can be reached at ecology@mail.com.

Anthropologist David Adams' Season of the Loon traces the evolution of wilderness as a personal perspective with
a colorful cast of Northland characters offering their opinions on nature. Camping with an Indian Pipe Holder,
fending off a cabin-marauding red squirrel, and lobbying Congress over preservation of federal lands are stopovers on
one man's search for wilderness. Season of the Loon is an honest look at competing viewpoints on wilderness and the
subcultures that provide them.

Learn more about David Adams and the Institute for Cultural Ecology.
And look for David's latest novel, Samsara in bookstores this fall.

   

~Reviews~

"Henry David Thoreau would have nodded and chuckled over this book .
In another time and another place, David Adams shows that the
exploration of the wilderness-civilization dichotomy has universal
and eternal relevance. From his special island, Adams probes both
inward and outward to themes of transcendent importance.
Here, in the great tradition of Sigurd Olson, are new ears
listening to the lessons of the North Country"
~Professor Roderick Frazier Nash, author, Wilderness and the American Mind
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"Brilliantly written, Season of the Loon celebrates the people and places
that make the North Country unique. Rarely does one find such
an important topic presented in such lucid prose. Adams' training
as an anthropologist allows him to probe into the heart of wilderness
politics. He shows that "green" special interest groups come in
a variety of shades. From a lobby effort on Capital Hill to the dip
of the canoe paddle on nameless lakes, Season of the Loon is a
journey worth taking." ~Troy Peden, President, GoAbroad.Com

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"Adams reminds us that wilderness yet cuts deep channels in the human
psyche. He invites us to go with these currents, reflect on the complexity
of their conceptual swirls and eddies and finally reconsider the human
place in the larger, older, wilder and endangered scheme of planetary
life." ~Max Oelschlaeger, author, The Idea of Wilderness
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"Season of the Loon arrives as welcome as the burst of sunshine after a
thunderstorm. David Adams goes to the heart of fierce disputes over
the future of our great northern forests, pitting the ecologist against
the entrpreneur, the national wilderness movement agaisnt the local
interest. Readers may question his conclusions or even his point of
view, but they will return changed and challenged after accom-
panying Adams on his journey from motor-obsessed youth to the
lonely figure canoeing through uncharted waters. And they
will find surprises on the way."
~John Mosedale, (retired) CBS Evening News