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Rants from the Hill
- Author
- Michael P. Branch
- Narrator
- David Marantz
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 20 September 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.
The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter.
From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’s cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.
Critics Review
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“Lyrical and subversive, the book is a rollicking celebration of living a joyously untamed life. An engagingly quirky collection.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“There have been dozens of hermit-in-the-woods Walden-like memoirs and essay collections written since Henry David Thoreau’s death, but few capture Thoreau’s raw, stubborn love for the natural world with as much humor and honesty as Michael P. Branch’s Rants From the Hill”
Chicago Tribune
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“At its best this book lends to Nevada the sort of sacred quality that good stories give to places. Reading it left me caring about a place I did not know and have never seen…This book fits in well with the hyperlocal tradition of nature writing. Branch knows about something beautiful and wants to share it.”
Western American Literature
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“If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he’d write like this.”
High Country News
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Details
- Author
- Michael P. Branch
- Narrator
- David Marantz
- Duration
- 6 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212032063
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Nature and the natural world: general interest, Humour collections and anthologies, Memoirs
Synopsis
Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter.From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’s cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.
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