{"product_id":"lassoing-the-sun-9781250827456","title":"Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In this remarkable journey, Mark Woods captures the essence of our National Parks: their serenity and majesty, complexity and vitality--and their power to heal.\" --Ken Burns \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the eve of turning fifty and a little burned-out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But then the unthinkable happened: his mother was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live. Mark had initially intended to write a book about the future of the national parks, but \u003ci\u003eLassoing the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e grew into something more: a book about family, the parks, and the legacies we inherit and the ones we leave behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK WOODS is the Metro Columnist for the\u003ci\u003e Florida Times-Union\u003c\/i\u003e, the daily newspaper in Jacksonville, FL, and recipient of the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship. He lives in Jacksonville, FL.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630170345746,"sku":"9781250827456","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc43a795-7a19-4fea-8276-69c563d7e1c2.jpg?v=1732745119","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lassoing-the-sun-9781250827456","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}