Description
2016 Montana Book Award Honor Book
From the Writer of Indian Creek Chronicles and the Winner of Five PNBA Awards, Pete Fromm’s New Memoir Sees His Return to the Wilderness to Explore a Life Lived within the Wilds.
Twenty-five years after his beloved memoir Indian Creek Chronicles, Pete Fromm was once asked to go back to the wilderness to babysit more fish eggs. No longer a footloose twenty-year-old, at forty-five, he was once the father of two young sons. He left again, by myself, straight into the heart of Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness, walking a day-to-day ten-mile loop to his fish eggs through deer and elk and the highest density of grizzly bears within the lower forty-eight states.
The Names of the Stars is a trek through a life lived at its edges. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes to the grim realities of lifeguarding within the Nevada desert, during the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a river ranger, Pete seeks out the source of his passion for wildness, at the same time as exploring fatherhood and mortality and all of the costs, risks, and rewards of life lived by itself terms.