From BooklistAn environmentalist–but not of the hug-a-tree variety–writes more engagingly of mountaineering Mauna Loa, of an big avocado tree, also of whale observing delight in the cliffs of eastern Oahu. The whales are relaxing to arrive, moving a meditation on Thoreau. Adler is relatively amusing, audacious to inscribe of system defects paradise–termites, mosquitoes, and, of course, the ubiquitous cockroach, who may perhaps or could not taste a soul. John Mort
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