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New PDF release: Strange Wonders: Searching for My Youth in America's

By Dade W Thornton

ISBN-10: 0990814904

ISBN-13: 9780990814900

ISBN-10: 0990814912

ISBN-13: 9780990814917

in the summertime of 1962, fifteen-year-old Whit Thornton took a seven week tenting journey along with his mom and dad via 11 western nationwide parks. between his adventures was once a technical climb of the Grand Teton, 13,770 ft excessive.
His father, Dade, was once a third-generation artist-photographer. the flowery Dade had an out-side character with eccentric pursuits. As Whit matured into maturity he grew to become from the trail set by means of his father to set up his personal id, pursuing a profession as a legal professional.
Over the years Whit relived the event from 1962 via a magazine he stored at the journey and during his dad's photos. He was once interested in repeat the journey, a sense that grew more advantageous with the passage of time.
Strange Wonders is the tale of Whit's try in 2012 to retrace the 1962 trip, to aim to discover the early life that spoke to him from the pages of his magazine and stared again at him in father's black and white photos. one among his assessments will be an try to climb the Grand Teton back.
The journey additionally develop into an unforeseen chance to discover his courting along with his overdue father and reconcile emotions lengthy repressed.

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