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‘Loose on the Landscape’ Reels in a Winner

Loose on the Landscape: An Ecologist Looks for Meaning in the Wildest Places

By Joel Everett Harding

Indie author, 2023

Genre: Non-Fiction – Memoir/Anthology/Nature/Ecology

Pages:  430

Via: Author Request

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Pssst! Buddy, can you keep a secret? Good. Cuz I’m about to let you in on one. Sort of. Here it is:

One of Mom’s favorite movies is A River Runs Through It. Not necessarily because of the story, although the movie parallels Norman Maclean’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated novella pretty close. But the movie is a Mom fave for two other reasons: 1) Mark Isham’s masterfully moving musical score, and 2) The spectacular landscape and scenery of Montana.

 

 

Maybe that’s why Mom had the movie’s musical score in her head on auto-play when she opened this book. I’ll let Mom fill you in:

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