Paul SchulleryCritiques

Great read.

Paul Schullery spent many seasons in Yellowstone as a ranger and as park historian. These are his personal stories.

I love Yellowstone and spent time at most of the places he describes. But there are still new places to explore. And more time. I have never been to the park in winter, and the descriptions of winter trips, sights, and memories were among my favorite in this work.

This book challenges us all to be more than simply tourists running from one point to another. It also encourages us to think more about preserving Yellowstone as an intact ecosystem. And that means thinking beyond the boundaries of the park itself. It means thinking about how we interact with our natural environment regardless of where we live, at where we are right now.

Put this book next to Desert Solitaire on your bookshelf. Schullery is not as well known as Abbey, but his writing stands with Abbey's and his ideas about Yellowstone and the National Park Service line up well with his more well-known fellow ranger.

While researching a book on the history of British cooking, the narrator, an avid fly angler, stumbles upon what may be the greatest discovery in the history of his sport. Told through a series of letters from the narrator to a friend, this short tale provokes some good laughs and keeps the reader in suspense.½