Rebecca Netzel: Der gute Geist des Yellowstone, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Aaron, das Adoptivkind eines reichen Anwalts-Ehepaares in New York, hadert mit seiner Identität. Er ist ein Lakota-Waise, seine Eltern kamen bei einem Autounfall ums Leben. Weil er die Natur liebt, arbeitet er als Park-Ranger im Yellowstone. Er ist der klassische Aussteiger-Typ und Waldläufer. Seine Begleiter sind die Mustangs Swift und Dusty und sein Wolfshund Sky. Dann tritt Angelina in sein Leben: ein hübsches Mädchen aus Chicago. Sie arbeitet als Wissenschaftlerin an einem Biologie-Projekt, bei dem Wölfe im Yellowstone-Gebiet mit Peilsendern ausgestattet werden. Dort lernt sie Aaron kennen und muss sich entscheiden, ob sie auf Karriere oder Ausstieg setzen will. Die heimliche Hauptperson des Romans aber ist die raue Wildnis der Rocky Mountains. Zugleich schildert das Buch packend die Anfänge des Umweltschutzgedankens.

Aaron, the adoptive child of a rich couple of attorneys in New York, is quarreling with his identity. He is a Lakota orphan, his parents had died during a car accident. As he loves nature, he works as a park ranger in the Yellowstone National Park. He is the classical dropout and mountain man. His companions are the mustangs Swift and Dusty and the wolfhound Sky. Then Angelina enters his life: a pretty girl from Chicago. She works as a scientist at a biological project, during which wolves in the Yellowstone area are equipped with transmitters to take bearings. There she meets Aaron and has to make a decision whether she wants to make a career or live as a dropout.

The secret protagonist of the novel is the rough wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. At the same time the novel describes in a grip-ping way the very beginnings of the concept of environmental protection.

Rebecca Netzel, born in 1963 in Flensburg (Germany) is a writer, linguist and Indianist. During numerous journeys to the USA, Canada, Mexico and Spain she captured the ambience for her stories that have already been presented in frequent readings, also internationally (Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs / Germany, Literary Summer of Baden-Württemberg, USA: Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park / Chicago. Since 1998 she has been registered in the Encyclopedia of German Writers (Lexikon Deutscher Schriftsteller). There have already been several interviews on the radio (SWR Contra, Hessischer Rundfunk). She is committed to voluntary work for Lakota orphans and environmental protection.