An edition of Camping at the Edge of American History
(2018)
Camping at the Edge of American History
The Oregon Coast in Words and Photographs
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January 19, 2018 | History
Camping at the Edge of American History renders the Oregon Coast and the greater Northwest in a work of creative nonfiction that melds surrealist photography with wide-ranging prose. In ten chapters and a substantial epilogue, the book seeks the dark corners and vacant meadows of the Northwest - its people and industry, wildlife & botany, myths & legends, geology, and natural and human history - and what is to be found there. The book is intended not only for tourists to the Oregon coast and locals but also anyone seeking a way to stop the nonstop noise of civilization, mitigate the effects of such noise on the psyche, and uncover (or recover) possible ways to slow down the rush of modernity.
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Table of Contents
Contents
Prologue: Edge of a Continent . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. VIII }
I. CAPE DIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. XIV }
Silhouettes on a Beach
Preteen Gangstas
Adventure Sports
Monkey Puzzle Tree
A Hit on an Octopus
II. STRATEGIES FOR MOVEMENT . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. XXXIX }
D. B. Cooper’s Money
Psychotic Breakdown
Moss on a Rolling Stone
The Dog and the Sea-Creature
III. WHEN BIG FOOT MET BILLIE JEAN . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. LXVI }
The King of Death
Big Foot One: Of Skookums and Skeptics
The Birdseye Lowdown
Octopus Trees and Nurse Logs
Big Foot Two: Big Foot Come Home
Bouquet From a Stranger
IV. DOWN BY THE JETTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. XCIV }
Lo-Fi Humidifiers
Tsunami: Waiting for a Disaster that Has Already
Happened (Or, Waiting for the
Same Disaster to Happen Again)
Poison Beer
Crop Circles on a Beach
V. FEAR AND LOATHING AT THE BEACH . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CXVII }
Messages in a Beach Cliff
The Paranoia of Winter
Development of a Campsite
Shooting the Family Dog
VI. WHEN IN A CROWD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CXXXIX }
Sandpipers I
The Persistence of Footprints
Sandpipers II
An Explosion of Bloodworms
Sandpipers III
Good Advices
VII. IN TRANSIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CLXV }
The Value of Ignorance to Explorers
Lost in the Wandering Dunes
VIII. ROCK LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CXCI }
Arachnosuicide
Backyard Wars Against Nature
Some Epochs are Harder Than Others
Write What You Know
IX. SEVEN DEVILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CCXI }
Pockets of Fuzz with Crystalline Eyes
The Lone Pine
Pets as Subjects for the Study of Nature
Field Trip
X. THE ROAD, THE PUZZLE, AND THE FLOWERS
OF PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CCXXXVI }
The Pace of Modern Living
Roadrunner: Archetype of an American Moment
The Sources of Enthusiasm for Nature
Clover Hunt
Drive-Thru America as Poetry
Epilogue: Slightly South of the Border . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { P. CCLXI }
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