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Part travel adventure part history part exploration

In The Last Empty Places bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote wild and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected wilderness the rivers and forests of Northern Maine the rugged unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance from the Easts big cities the haunting canyons of Central New Mexico and the vast arid basins of Southeast Oregon

Stark discovers that the places he visits are only blank in terms of a lack of recorded history In fact each place holds layers of history meaning and intrinsic value and is far from being blank He also finds that each region has played an important role in shaping our American idea of wilderness through the influential natural philosophers who visited these places and wrote about their experiencesHenry David Thoreau William Bartram John Muir and Aldo Leopold Its a fascinating look at the value of nature the ways humans use and approach it and what it means to seek out empty places in todays world