Chessler Books
Rock Climbing - Mountaineering - Exploration
New - Used - Collectible - Signed
Home
|
Titles Site Map
|
Subjects Site Map
|
New Arrivals
|
What's On Sale
|
Contact
|
View Cart
All Orders Shipped via United States Postal Service
$20 & less
10th Mt Div
7 Summits
8000 M
Africa
Alaska, Denali
Alps, UK, Caucasus
Andes, Patagonia
Antarctic, Arctic, Voyage
Anthologies, Essays
Autographed
Avalanches, Rescue
Biographies
Canada
Cascades
Caving
Chessler Catalogs
Children
CO, UT, Rockies
DVD Video
Ephemera, Catalogs
EVEREST, KHUMBU
Expeditions, Narratives
Fiction
Glaciers, Geology
Guidebooks
Ice Axes Pitons
Indian Himalaya
K2, KARAKORAM
Magazines, Journals
Maps Antique
Maps Topo
Nepal Himalaya
Northeast USA
Norway, Greenland
NZ, AU, New Guinea
Photos, Photo Books
Posters, Art
RARE, USED, COLLECTIBLE
ROCK & ICE CLIMBING
Sale
Skiing
Technique, Reference, His
Tetons, WY, No Rockies
Tibet China Asia Japan Ru
USA Climb Hike History
Yosemite Sierra CA AZ NV
Author:
Title:
Keyword:
Item #:
Select a Subject...
$20 & less
10th Mountain Division, Military
8000 Meter Peaks
Africa
Alaska, McKinley, Denali
Alps, Britain, Europe, Caucasus
Andes, Patagonia, South America
Antarctica, Arctic, Polar, Voyages
Anthologies, Essays, Collections
Autographed
Avalanches, Rescue, Survival, 1st Aid
Biographies, Narratives
Canada
Cascades, Olympics
Caving
Chessler Books Catalogs
Children's Books
Colorado, Utah, Rockies
DVD and VIDEO
Ephemera: Postcards, Newspapers, Programs, Advertising, Catalogs
Everest, Khumbu
Expeditions, Narratives, Biographies, Adventure Travel
Fiction, Cartoons, Poetry
Glaciers, Geology, Weather
Guidebooks, Climbing, Hiking, Travel
Ice Axes, Pitons, Carabiners
Indian Himalaya, Bhutan, Sikkim, Kashmir
Karakoram, K2, Hindu Kush
Magazines and Journals
Maps: Antiquarian, Collectible
Maps: Topo, Climbing, Hiking
Nepal Himalaya
New England, Mid Atlantic
New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea
Norway, Greenland, Scandinavia
Photography, Illustrations
Posters, Art
Rare, Used, Collectible
Rock & Ice Climbing
Sale
Seven Summits
Skiing
Technique, Reference, Climbing History
Tetons, Wyoming, Northern Rockies
Tibet China Central Asia Russia Japan
USA Climbing, Hiking, Travel, History
Yosemite, Sierra, California
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
Mc
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
100 Best Mountaineering Books
About Us
After Thin Air [Everest 1996 legacy]
Are Your Signed Books Authentic?
Book Collecting: Condition and Value
Can I visit your bookshop?
Certificates of Authenticity
Customer Feedback UPDATED 2023
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
How To Collect Mountaineering Books
How to Order and Pay us
How To Search: Good Ideas
Shipping Rates and Delivery Time
We Buy Mountaineering Books!
Gift Certificates
Modify Customer Info
Contact Us 720-560-4963
Item #: BK4658-9473
BIG WONDERFUL: NOTES FROM WYOMING [Includes climbing] Kevin Holdsworth 2006 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple copies available
By Holdsworth, Kevin
Price: $19.95
Add to wish list
Click Here For
Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
Colorado, 2006, 1st edition. 192 pp. Hardcover with Dust Jacket, Like New.
What begins with simple observations from a Utah transplant to Wyoming becomes an ode to family and place, and perhaps an elegy for it all.” —Jeffe Kennedy, author of Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel
In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts—or foolishness—it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment.
Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn’t wait to move away. Once ensconced on the East Coast, however, he found himself writing westerns and dreaming of the mountains he’d skied and climbed. Fed up with city life, he moved to a small Wyoming town.
In
Big Wonderful
, he writes of a mountaineering companion’s death, the difficult birth of his son, and his father’s terminal illness—encounters with mortality that sharpened his ideas about risk, care, and commitment. He puts a new spin on mountaineering literature, telling wild tales from his reunion with the mountains but also relating the surprising willpower it took to turn back from risks he would have taken before he became a father. He found he needed courage to protect and engage deeply with his family, his community, and the wild places he loves.
Holdsworth’s essays and poems are rich with anecdotes, characters, and vivid images. Readers will feel as if they themselves watched a bear destroy an entire expedition’s food, walked with his great-great-grandmother along the icy Mormon Trail, and tried to plant a garden in Wyoming’s infamous wind.
Readers who love the outdoors will eagerly partake, as “Holdsworth invites us to sit down at his literary campfire and listen to vivid, unforgettable stories” (High Country News).
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available
Items From This Author
Items From This Category
ALPINE JOURNAL 100s OF INDIVIDUAL ISSUES LISTED HERE! PAPERBACK, WRAPPERS or HARDCOVER ISSUES 1863-1986
By: Alpine Club UK
Price $10.00
- Item # JR207B
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SUMMIT MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES 1960-1969 See This List
By: Summit Magazine
Price $10.00
- Item # JR154J-936
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MAZAMA BULLETIN INDIVIDUAL BACK ISSUES 1905 - 1975 New issues recently added
By: Mazama Bulletin
Price $5.00
- Item # JR225-127
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLIMBER and CLIMBER AND RAMBLER MAGAZINE UK (Not a set) $5 per issue As available
By: Climber and Rambler Magazine
Price $5.00
- Item # JR251-121
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AN AFTERCLAP OF FATE: MALLORY ON EVEREST Charles Lind 2006 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ New Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize
By: Lind, Charles
Price $150.00
- Item # BK2167-932
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AN AFTERCLAP OF FATE: MALLORY ON EVEREST Charles Lind 2006 Hardcover DJ New Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize
By: Lind, Charles
Price $39.95
~ Regular $50.00, You Save $10.05 (20%)
- Item # BK2167-932
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE CLIMBING ART MAGAZINE Individual Back Issues Number 1 to 31
By: Climbing Art Magazine, Pat Ament
Price $5.00
- Item # JR156-127
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ON TOP OF THE WORLD: MY ADVENTURES WITH MY MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING HUSBAND Patricia Petzoldt 1953 1st ed Hardcover Near Fine
By: Petzoldt, Patricia
Price $34.99
~ Regular $70.00, You Save $35.01 (50%)
- Item # OP613A-952
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
KAMET CONQUERED Frank Smythe 1932 1st ed Hardcover Rare Dust Jacket Near Fine
By: Smythe, Frank
Price $275.00
~ Regular $450.00, You Save $175.00 (39%)
- Item # OP1759B-121
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SUMMIT MAGAZINE BACK ISSUES 1959; See List
By: Summit Magazine
Price $15.00
- Item # JR154F-936
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author.
WHY I CLIMB: PERSONAL INSIGHTS OF TOP CLIMBERS Steve Gardiner 1990 1st ed Softcover Near Fine-Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: Gardiner, Steve
Price $4.99
~ Regular $25.00, You Save $20.01 (80%)
- Item # BK1247-9323
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
HEEL AND TOE: THE CLIMBS OF GREATER VEDAUWOO, WYOMING Kelman & Harper 1994 1st ed Paperback Near Fine Multiple copies available
By: Kelman, Robert, Skip Harper
Price $9.95
~ Regular $75.00, You Save $65.05 (87%)
- Item # GB1015-9544
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
TEEWINOT: CLIMBING & CONTEMPLATING THE TETON RANGE Jack Turner 2001 Paperback Near Fine-Fine 3 Copies Available
By: Turner, Jack
Price $4.99
~ Regular $14.95, You Save $9.96 (67%)
- Item # BK1581-5833
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY: THE ENDURING WONDER Seymour L. Fishbein 1989 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine
By: Fishbein, Seymour L.
Price $9.99
~ Regular $20.00, You Save $10.01 (50%)
- Item # OP7669-947
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CRACK COUNTRY REVISITED A CLIMBING GUIDE TO VEDAUWOO Layne Kopischka 1982 1st ed Softcover Very Good-Near Fine 3 Copies Available
By: Kopischka, Layne
Price $9.99
~ Regular $15.00, You Save $5.01 (33%)
- Item # GB1031D-9543
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
FIFTY CLASSIC CLIMBS OF NORTH AMERICA Steve Roper Allen Steck Hardcover 1st US ed Hardcover Dust Jacket Fine
By: Roper, Steve and Allen Steck, Sierra Club
Price $350.00
- Item # OP191A-938p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
FIRE WEATHER USDA Mark Schroeder, Charles Buck 1970 Tall paperback, Fine
By: Mark Schroeder, Charles Buck
Price $35.00
- Item # OP4667-936
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLIFFHANGER: NEW CLIMBING CULTURE AND ADVENTURES Julie Ellison 2020 1st ed Large Hardcover Near Fine
By: Ellison, Julie
Price $39.99
~ Regular $75.00, You Save $35.01 (47%)
- Item # BK4260-932p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNTAINEERING IN THE WIND RIVER RANGE: MEADOW AND GLACIER 2019 1st ed New Softcover SIGNED by Jack Smith
By: Smith, Jack
Price $19.99
~ Regular $45.00, You Save $25.01 (56%)
- Item # BK4198-93310
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
WYOMING MOUNTAIN RANGES Lorraine Bonney 1987 1st ed Oblong Softcover Near Fine
By: Bonney, Lorraine
Price $19.95
- Item # OP4624-947
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart