{"product_id":"rants-from-the-hill-on-packrats-bobcats-wildfires-curmudgeons-a-drunken-mary-kay-lady-and-otherencounters-with-the-wild-in-the-high-desert-9781611804577","title":"Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Otherencounters with the Wild in the High Desert","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"If Thoreau drank more whiskey and lived in the desert, he'd write like this.\"--\u003ci\u003eHigh Country News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada's Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch, it's home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch--humorist, environmentalist, and author of \u003ci\u003eRaising Wild--\u003c\/i\u003eis a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters' cat--not to mention his eccentric neighbors--adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch's small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Roost Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611804577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael P. Branch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452222992565,"sku":"9781611804577","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_729668cd-b173-4f0c-a56f-e7828a5daef7.jpg?v=1776826272","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rants-from-the-hill-on-packrats-bobcats-wildfires-curmudgeons-a-drunken-mary-kay-lady-and-otherencounters-with-the-wild-in-the-high-desert-9781611804577","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}