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David Bird Thomson
Featuring author of The Solar Kid and
In the Shining Mountains
Missing since 1979
THE SOLAR KID
by David Bird Thomson- Outskirts Press, 2008
The Solar Kid is a fiction manuscript David left behind in 1979, published by his sister in 2008.
David writes through the eyes of a disillusioned young man who leaves his midwestern suburban town in search of personal Truth and hops a train heading West. He is looking for answers to his vivid daydream hallucinations of cities on fire and futuristic solar societies. He runs into eclectic fellow travelers along the way who joins him in his search. A theme of solar energy emerges within the group and they set out together to expose greedy corporations and governmental figures from their misuse of nuclear power and their plans for huge financial profits for the use of the sun. The 'Kid' as he is called by his comrades, is perplexed and awed as he shifts from the past, to present and to future times without warning. With the help of an illusive wizard, the Kid starts to understand the deeper riddle and what's really important in all realities.
IN THE SHINING MOUNTAINS, A Would-be Mountain Man in Search of Wilderness - Alfred A. Knopf, 1979
by
David Bird Thomson
"A beautiful book, bold and clear. David Thomson writes from love, with passion and great heart. He is no trimmer, temporizer or sycophant, but a real hero of the word, a man who knows who the real enemy is and says so in plain English. I like that."
- Edward Abbey
QUOTES by...
John Casey:
"In the Shining Mountains is an exciting, funny, angry, and lovely book. It is close kin to two books I admire a lot- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and Sailing Around the World by Joshua Slocum"
Edward Abbey:
"Thomson is the the Thoreau for the eighties."
John Nichols:
"In The Shining Mountains is a poignant, angry and beautiful portrait of some of the last wild areas in our country. As the book gains momentum, it becomes an achingly lyrical and powerful hymn to the wilderness spirit.
David Thomson's odyssey in the dangerous and fragile high country of our rapidly pizzifying nation makes us recall that tragic cry from Look Homeward, Angel: "Oh lost, and by the wind, grieved ghost, come back again." There are moments when the writing becomes so pure and lucid that the Shining Mountains seem almost to swell out of the book, and the swirling winds and wonderful weather of the Northern Rockies leap up to take your breath away.
It's a long time since anyone has managed to write something this focused into an intimate, meaningful mood. Sad, haunting, and very lovely, this book will make you want to put on a back pack and head for the hills in hopes of experiencing at least one last significant moment of the almost forgotten American past before it is all over.
In The Shining Mountains is a requiem for a way of life. Yet, in making it absolutely clear how close our wilderness spirit is to extinction, Thomson adds his voice to the growing number of distinguished citizens determined to salvage those last breathless vestiges of our frontier heritage. There is much in this book to treasure and reread often."
In The Shining Mountains excerpt:
Page 242
"And I thought to myself: Maybe there are currents in the earth which are only explainable in terms of spirit. Maybe there are certain psychic connections between humans and the earth which can only be explained in terms of spirit. Currents as indefinable as the threads that weave their way into love. It struck me that that was what I had felt that morning the ridge had turned ultraviolet and the gold sun had risen off the mountains. I had felt, without even realizing that I loved it, that it was more beautiful than anything I could ever do or make, that it moved me to the heights of my being. And I felt that burning anger at the lies they were telling about energy in the seventies, about how they were doing everything they could and it had to go to coal and strip-mining before it could go to solar and wind. That was the biggest lie. I had thought there was some anger in Crow Mountains at what was happening to the land in this decade, but it had been MY anger, subconsciously projected into the range.
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