Review: The High Sierra by Kim Stanley Robinson
Book Cover Description: A craigy peak topped by orange sunset clouds in the North American High Sierra Mountains is mirrored by a mountain lake. Text reads: The High Sierra - A Love Story - Kim Stanley Robinson - New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry for the Future *** Since reading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR), I have become obsessed with his books. I have read the Mars Trilogy several times and found new and interesting details each time. I am also a Midwest-based outdoors-person and lover of mountains. KSR's Sierra book is beautiful. His discussions on Muir and the conservation of the range are interspersed with gear philosophy, life advice for outdoors people, and the stories that are swapped when outdoors-people start talking. I was just thrilled to learn that my obsession with KSR's work and mountains are intertwined in a way that seems obvious in hindsight. So many physical descriptions in his books are inspired by the Sierr...