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Rick Bass’ new short story collection, The Lives of
Rocks, proves that his fierce environmental activism has not
diminished the intensity of his storytelling genius
by Emma Brown,
May 28, 2007
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Rebecca Stanfel always planned to take her young son
Andrew on wilderness expeditions, but the onslaught of illness has
taught her that nature can also be found much closer to
home.
by Rebecca Stanfel,
May 14, 2007
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A teacher asks his students and the rest of us to imagine:
What would the world be like if we had the courage to use our
imaginations?
by David Oates,
Apr 16, 2007
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The noisy contrast between snowmobiles and cross-country
skis awakens the author to the similar contrast between the life
she has always wanted and the one she currently has with her
partner, Billy.
by Deanna Wittmer Clauson,
Mar 19, 2007
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In The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from
the Mojave to the Antarctic, Lucy Jane Bledsoe chases her
own wild fears across the landscape in search of a state of
grace.
by Sarah Gilman,
Mar 19, 2007
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After more than a decade of a solitary existence packing
mules in the Northern Rockies, the writer is seriously injured and
must reconsider his way of life.
by Jason Fisher,
Mar 05, 2007
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In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited
by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define
unusual geographical terms used across the country.
by Eliza Murphy,
Mar 05, 2007
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A Westerner makes the disconcerting discovery that as we
age, the high, dry West we love isn't so good for our
moisture-loving bodies, and the only cure is a trip to the
beach.
by Ted Kerasote,
Feb 19, 2007
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Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its
lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling
through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the
whole wild world.”
by Heidi Andrew,
Feb 19, 2007
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Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks
– and prays – about the friends she loves, and the
families they worry about.
by Kathleen Dean Moore,
Feb 05, 2007