The Last Season
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Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California’s unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous as they are gorgeous.
Eric Blehm’s masterful work is a gripping detective tale interwoven with the riveting biography of a intricate, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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I really had high hopes for this book, but it’s not really an adventure and it-s not appealing at all. Very dull.
I regret buying it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The Last Season is a about a college drop out, that goes to the Peace Core to beat the vietnam draft. Spends his life first trying to be a shouter, then writer when he can’t make it. he spends his life effective summers and running around on this wife. As some one that has visited over 300 units of the NPS this is a ZERO! If you like reading about losers read this book! I am being kind giving it one star, Save your money!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I establish this book to be tedious and depressing and yet I managed to read the entire thing, wanting to find out what finally happened. Randy Morgenson grew up in an idyllic setting (Yosemite Valley), was raised by caring parents, yet managed to make a mess of his life due to what seems to have been an obsession for living alone in the beauty of the Sierra. He married, but was away from home at least half the time, and never had children. Although a legendary and exemplary ranger, he was unfaithful to his long-suffering wife in a three-year affair, became ultimately disillusioned with his obsession, and finally died alone rumor has it that having drowned after falling through a snow bridge into an alpine pond while on make the rounds. Tragic and depressing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The Last Season, by Eric Blem
Blem is no Jack London, not a Joseph Conrad, not an Edward Abbey or even a Krakauer. He is not the Woodward and Bernstein of the outdoors. He will not win the Pulitzer or likely any award for this book. It is not that well written. But, if you feel compelled to know and explore the obscure and remote in scenery, to revel in the industry of ants, or contemplate why sweating up a slippery gravel slope bests Chateuneuf du Pape and filet mignon, this is your book.
Did Randy Morgenson, a 28 year veteran backcountry ranger, kill himself from despair in like and frustration of craft, ran away from the mountains and wife who loved and tortured him, or die in the line of duty? Most published authors who have written using a similar plots generate more powerful tension and deliver a better payoff on the plot.
The theme of this biography is not really Morgenson nor why or how he disappeared. The theme is the consequences of a narcissistic pursuit of scenery. For persons of us whose pursuit of scenery seems cramped by the demands of family tree, income or ambition, or whose family tree, income or financial goals are compromised by our pursuit of scenery, I know of no better read. It is not a self-help book; there are no answers. But, like the stark reality of what happened to Randy Morgenson, the issues are painfully and powerfully all ears in the reader’s mind.
Hamilton Moore
© 2006 Hamilton D. Moore
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Brilliant writer who made an appealing read about a not-so appealing individual – If a book was written for every committed and knowlegable naturalist who has ever lived and worked in the meadow for several decades, we would have thousands of books. Morganson goes missing for a couple years and all of a sudden he warrants a book written about himself. The book makes clear that he was arrogant, intolerant of persons who did not agree with his philosophies, and he was an unloyal spouse (which suggests he was unloyal to all of persons who considered him a friend). Of course he knew the scientific names of some plants so this mitigated his flawed characteristics and thus a book was written. I look forwards to reading future titles from this gifted writer. I just hope he can pick more compelling subjects. What about a book on Dana Morganson?
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5