The Mountain World edited by Gregory McNamee, Sierra Club, $16.95, ISBN 1578050936 Reviewed by Michael Bond
“THERE is something about mountains,” writes Gregory McNamee in his introduction, “that sends humans into states of consciousness that are far from our normal modes of being”. Well, not all humans. Mark Twain, one of dozens selected for this anthology, found tall mountains “disagreeable”. Though most writers here – and McNamee’s delightful mix includes the Wind River Shoshone tribe, King David the writer of the biblical psalms, and Ernest Hemingway – mirror the editor’s delight in the high places.
