Go West, Young Scholar
Or, how to enjoy a California wine in a national park full of rattlesnakes
Terry Tempest Williams talks America’s national parks and her new book, The Hour of Land; James Conaway explains how to survive a California wildfire while downing petite syrah; and Ted Levin sticks up for the beleaguered timber rattlesnake.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Our Summer 2016 cover story about America’s national parks, “The Taming of the Wild”
• James Conaways’s essay about the Valley Fire, “Waiting for Fire”
• Ted Levin’s Shelf Life excerpt
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