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United States, 1960s. "If you were to go to the wilderness, who would you go with?" "David Brower." David Brower is the main promoter of the "Wasteland Act" in the United States, executive director of the Sierra Club, and founder of Friends of the Earth. He is the "spokesperson for wilderness conservation" in the eyes of his peers. During Brower's tenure as executive director, the Sierra Club's membership grew from seven thousand to seventy-seven thousand. Under his leadership, the club influenced U. S. Legislation regarding the use of land, oceans and atmosphere. To the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Brower was a demon, single-handedly delaying the construction of two major dams in the Grand Canyon for at least two generations and possibly never building them. This book records Brower's three journeys into the wilderness. Brower was accompanied by: Charles Frazier, "one of the two top real estate developers in the United States" who considered himself a true environmentalist.