On the Loose

About this book

First published in 1967 by the Sierra Club On the Loose went on to sell more than one million copies. Now Gibbs Smith Publisher is re-releasing this underground wilderness classic for a new generation of readers. On the Loose is a journey through the American West led by two adventurous brothers Terry and Renny Russell. It is a chronicle of triumph and tragedy-the triumph of gaining an insight about oneself through an understanding of the natural world; the tragedy of seeing its splendor increasingly threatened by people who dont know or dont care. The color and black-and-white photographs all taken by the authors capture Yosemite Point Reyes the High Sierra the Great Basin and Glen Canyon in the 1950s and 1960s.