The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Mount Rainier is the largest and most dangerous volcano in the country. Looming massively above the rugged Cascade Range in Washington State, it is visited by millions, climbed by thousands, and romanticized as the most potent icon of the region. Yet it is a mountain that few truly know. In The Measure of a Mountain, Seattle writer Bruce Barcott sets out to know Rainier. His method is exploratory, meandering, personal. In a masterful work of narrative journalism, Barcott adroitly explores not only the natural place of Rainier, but also the psychology and meaning of all mountains.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bruce Barcott: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier Friday, July 17 2009.

• When it rises like a misshapen moon over downtown Seattle, the mountain entrances me, arrests my attention, and rouses my imagination; it makes me weave on wet highways.