This collection of 18 essays explores the meaning of recreation, parks, and leisure in the author's own life. Many of the essays are about adventure-based outdoor recreation experiences and are set in the context of mountains, forests, deserts, and tundra. Wilderness Within is an excellent text for fostering dialog with students about the significant meaning, richness, and complexity of leisure.

The Wilderness Within: Reflections of Leisure and Life

Politics & Social Sciences

DANIEL L. DUSTIN

Social Sciences

Sagamore Pub Llc

The authors explore the stimulating question, "What is the importance of parks and recreation to the quality of life?" Asked by students, educators, and practitioners alike, the answer to this question is the core of one's philosophy in the recreation field. With an updated preface, this industry classic reintroduces three main objectives: A study of recreational conduct, a statement of philosphy, and an application of the philosophical foundation that will shape the future of park and recreation professionals.

Stewards of Access/Custodians of Choice: A Philosophical Foundation for the Park and Recreation Profession (3rd Edition)

Leo H. McAvoy

John H. Schultz

Sports & Outdoors

Sagamore Publishing

This collection of essays explores the meaning of recreation, parks, &amp; leisure in the author's own life. Many of the essays are about adventure based outdoor recreation experiences and are set in the mountains, forests, deserts and tundra. The Wilderness Within, 3rd Edition is an excellent book for fostering dialog about the meaning, richness and complexity of leisure. This edition adds essays about the author's life in Florida.

The Wilderness Within: Reflections on Leisure and Life

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Sagamore Publishing LLC

This book is intended to deepen your understanding of social and environmental justice in the context of leisure. It will spur your curiosity and bring you to your learning edge -- the place where you come when you are a little anxious and uncomfortable and where you can either pull back into your comfort zone and stay with the familiar or lean into your discomfort, suspend your disbelief, and open yourself to the possibility of learning something new. This book features 19 thought-provoking chapters with discussion questions and syntheses contributed by authors from the United States, Canada, and Australia. Whether you come to this work through your concern for the environment or through your desire for greater social equity among people, you come to justice work because you recognise the need for it and believe you can make a difference.

Just Leisure

Keri Schwab

Biological Sciences

This is an insightful collection of 39 self-reflective essays about a life devoted to recreation, parks, and leisure. This 4th edition includes a new prologue and ten new essays -- six based on the author's Utah years (previous editions focused on his California and Florida years), and four recounting lessons learned from a life spent in higher education. Dustin has written The Wilderness Within over a 30-year period to make his invisible interior visible to readers -- especially to students. He intends this final edition to be a comfort and a companion to fellow sojourners who are trying to better understand the meaning of leisure in life as well as humankind's relationship with the larger living world.

The Fuller Life Man

KERI A. SCHWAB

Sagamore Venture Publishing

The Wilderness Within: Journeys in Self-Discovery

Institute for Leisure Behavior

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