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Marin WWII Hero To Promote New Book In Marfa Texas
WWII hero and outdoor author and photographer, Phil Arnot is going back to Marfa Texas, where he learned how to fly B-17s, to promote the republishing of his book, "The Mystique Of The Wilderness".
June 30, 2012
John Parulis
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Marin WWII Hero To Promote New Book In Marfa Texas
WWII veteran and B-17 co-pilot, Phil Arnot, has recently republished his visual essay, "The Mystique Of The Wilderness" at print on demand publisher, http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3262816
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Phil was recently awarded France's highest medal for valor, the Legion Of Honor, for flying 22 missions over Nazi Germany during World War 2. After leaving the service, Phil spent over 60 years of his life exploring some of world's great wilderness places, photographing nature's beauty and writing many guide books to the outdoors. Phil's logged more than 10,000 trail miles over the western United States, capturing exquisite beauty with his cameras lens and writing some great guide books to those trails.
Of those years Phil writes;
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“Almost immediately after being discharged from the Army Air Force, I turned to the Sierra Nevada to begin a life long love affair with John Muir’s “Range of Light”. Here, I came to experience over and over the joy that comes from exploring pristine alpine basins, spending nights atop Sierra summits under the full moon, watching the awesome drama of the spring run-off, seeing my first lunar rainbow, descending enchanted gorges and exploring black divides, discovering hidden unnamed lakes, going ‘solo’ in the Sierra Nevada, hiking by moonlight, climbing unnamed peaks, discovering green meadows dense with wildflowers, reveling in the power of thunderstorms, witnessing the season’s first snowfall, contemplating ancient trees thousands of years old, and delighting in the dance of aspen leaves in the midday breeze of summer and their turning color in autumn. “
Marfa Public Radio, KRTS 93.5 in Marfa Texas has invited Phil to talk about his book in the town where he learned how to fly during World War 2, 69 years ago. Phil will visit the old airfield at Marfa for the first time since the war, as part of this book promotional tour. The Mystique of the Wilderness is a testament to the beauty and spirituality of the wilderness. It is the culmination of 65 years of exploring wilderness from Alaska to New Zealand, from Hawaii to the Swiss Alps and many a place in-between.
I met Phil in 1997 while working for Academy Award winning filmmaker, David Berry on a new style of visually enhanced biography sketch of Phil in the Sierras. That film is called “High Sierra Reverie” and is available for viewing at Phil's web site.
Find out more about Phil, his life story and exquisite photos at his website: http://philarnot.com
While on the website, consider clicking the Kickstarter link, to help support this promotional tour.
