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The Names of the Stars A Life in the Wilds
The Names of the Stars A Life in the Wilds
Author: Pete Fromm
Condition: Fair
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In The Names of the Stars, Pete Fromm returns to the Montana backcountry twenty‑five years after Indian Creek Chronicles to babysit salmon eggs in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, walking a daily ten‑mile loop through deer, elk and the highest density of grizzly bears in the lower forty‑eight. The memoir traces a life lived at the edges—from lifeguarding in the Nevada desert to river and backcountry patrols on the Snake and Rio Grande—while folding in themes of solitude, fatherhood, mortality and the slow, surprising shifts of a relationship to place; its quiet, observant prose situates personal experience within the long American tradition of wilderness writing and offers the rare perspective of returning to the same wild as a more settled, middle‑aged man.
2016 Montana Book Award Honor Book and written by Pete Fromm (author of Indian Creek Chronicles and a five‑time PNBA award winner), this is a text‑focused wilderness memoir (ISBN13: 9781250139191) that emphasizes lyrical natural description and inward reflection rather than illustrated or cartographic apparatus; publisher and catalog notes show no evidence of extensive photographs or maps, making the strength of the volume its narrative, place‑based detail and Fromm’s lived authority on backcountry life.
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Keywords, content and topics in this Book
Keywords, content and topics in this Book
Core bibliographic data
Type of book
Personal memoir
Autobiographical narrative
Wilderness / nature memoir
Temporal and geographic setting
Subject and themes
Wilderness living
Solitude and isolation
Backcountry survival
River and backcountry patrol / camp life
Coming of age in the wild
Middle age reflection and return to place
Personal growth through nature immersion
Human–nature relationship
Outdoor adventure
Contemplation and introspection
Activities and environment
Backpacking and hiking
Tent living in winter wilderness
Mountain and forest environment
Snow, cold weather, and winter conditions
Outdoor camp routines (wood gathering, cooking, shelter)
Night sky observation / stars as motif
People and relationships
Individual wilderness experience (first‑person narrator)
Young man’s rite of passage
Visual / illustrative content
No clear evidence in publisher and catalog descriptions of extensive photos, maps, blueprints, or color diagrams; text‑focused memoir.
WW2‑related classification
This book is not about World War II and does not cover WW2 theaters, operations, campaigns, units, or military technology in its core subject matter.
Example cataloging keywords (non‑WW2)
Pete Fromm
Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness
Idaho wilderness
Montana wilderness
Salmon eggs – field monitoring
Wildlife field work
Outdoor life – United States
Nature – personal narratives
Solitude in nature
Wilderness survival – memoir
Backcountry winter camping
Stars – symbolic meaning
Return to place after decades
Life reflection in midlife
Book Condition: Fair
Book Condition: Fair
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