Whit Thornton is retired after 43 years practicing government contract law in government, private practice, and with Lockheed Martin. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Washington & Lee University. With an interest in history and thirst for adventure, he and his wife, Jane, split their time between homes in the Low Country of South Carolina and in the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Lake Tahoe. The author of numerous legal articles, Strange Wonders: Searching for My Youth in America’s National Parks is his first book.
Strange Wonders: Searching for My Youth in America’s National Parks
Strange Wonders: Searching for My Youth in America’s National Parks is Blue Highways meets The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The book is a deeply personal memoir of a baby boomer’s odyssey of discovery in two journeys through the national parks taken 50 years apart.
Illustrated with classic black and white photographs taken by his professional photographer father on the 1962 trip and his own rich color images from the reprise.
