The Cure of the Wild: Rafting the Salmon River and the Restorative Power of Wilderness
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Every once in a while I have a William Wordsworth moment. Wordsworth is the immortal English poet who penned, among many masterpieces, a sonnet entitled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” which begins:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune.
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Don George has been a pioneering travel writer and editor for 30 years. He is the author of the best-selling guide Travel Writing and the editor of six acclaimed anthologies of travel stories, including The Kindness of Strangers and A Moveable Feast. Formerly Travel Editor for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet, he is Contributing Editor and Book Review Columnist for National Geographic Traveler and Special Features Editor and Blogger for Gadling.com; he is also Editor in Chief and Blogger for the Adventure Collection.
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