Maddie’s review of Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Outdoor Lives) > Likes and Comments
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I don’t normally respond to reader’s thoughts because what they think of my books feels like none of my business; however, you obviously missed the two paragraphs in the afterword where I acknowledge Muir’s erasure of indigenous people, his language born of colonization and conquest, and that the National Parks system, though wonderful in many ways, is predicated on an ugly, murderous past.
And, I acknowledge that the language I used reflects not just who I was at the time but that moment in time. So it seems like maybe you didn’t read the afterword in the new edition?!?!
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Sep 07, 2024 02:04PM
I don’t normally respond to reader’s thoughts because what they think of my books feels like none of my business; however, you obviously missed the two paragraphs in the afterword where I acknowledge Muir’s erasure of indigenous people, his language born of colonization and conquest, and that the National Parks system, though wonderful in many ways, is predicated on an ugly, murderous past.
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And, I acknowledge that the language I used reflects not just who I was at the time but that moment in time. So it seems like maybe you didn’t read the afterword in the new edition?!?!
