Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet

Synopsis

Two Parallel Stories About The Great Wilderness--williams's Year Alone, Ground Truthing Backcountry Maps Of Southern Utah, And That Of His Great-great-great-grandfather, Who In 1863 Traveled With A Group Of Mormons From England To The American West; Intertwines Ancestry, Identity, Philosophy, Evolution, And Our Dependence On Wilderness--provided By Publisher. Prologue: San Rafael River, Utah -- Castle Valley, Utah -- Severn River, Shrewsbury, England -- Solitude Wash, Book Cliffs, Utah -- Aboard The Cynosure, Atlantic Ocean -- Cottonwood Wash, San Rafael Desert, Utah -- Big Draw, Canyonlands National Park, Utah -- Platte River, Somewhere In Middle America -- Musée D'orsay, Paris -- Recapture Creek, Utah -- Dead Horse Point, Utah -- Three Crossings, Wyoming -- Epilogue: Colorado River, Dream Water. Brooke Williams.