RaveAtlanta Journal-ConstitutionHow would Muir react to our contemporary landscape? \'He would cry in his beer today,\' writes Chapman. However, Muir likely would nod his approval at the work of his acolyte ... [Chapman] has produced an engaging hybrid — part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor ... Between these two note-scribbling wanderers, it is hard to tell who is more enraptured by the outdoors, but Chapman is the bigger wiseacre. He takes an immersive, sometimes mischievous approach ... Like a good reporter, Chapman has done his homework, reading all of the dry scientific journals and surveys, connecting the dots, and distilling them into accessible observations and larger truths ... A Road Running Southward offers no pat prescription to fix these problems overnight, but it reminds us of all that we have, and it sounds a powerful, resonant alarm.
