Results for keyword: nonfiction
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It's not just a job, it's an adventure: A review of Permanent Vacation
The 20 essays in this collection take us into the wacky and wonderful lives of some of the many people who work in the country's national parks.
by Gretchen Legler, Jun 26, 2011 -
Chronicling a lost river: A review of Dry River
Ken Lamberton explores a Southwestern desert landscape in Dry River: Stores of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz.
by Erica Olsen, Jun 12, 2011 -
The endless atlas: A review of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit assembles historical, legendary, and artistic tidbits and tales along with glorious maps in her new book.
by Jeremy Miller, May 29, 2011 -
Finding reassurance in change: a review of Wild Comfort
In her new collection of essays, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Kathleen Dean Moore writes her way to the knowledge that "sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles."
by Chérie Newman, Mar 20, 2011 -
Regaining identity through restoration
Charles Wilkinson's new book, The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon describes how a tribe "terminated" by the federal government fought to regain its identity.
by Chérie Newman, Mar 06, 2011 -
Glimpses of the high desert
The essays in Ellen Waterston's Where the Crooked River Rises pay homage to her home in the high desert of eastern Oregon.
by Emilene Ostlind, Feb 06, 2011 -
Of rivers, boats and baseball umpires
The essays in Robin Cody's Another Way the River Has range all over the map but somehow lead back to the river.
by Melissa Hart, Aug 01, 2010 -
Turning back the tide
A volunteer naturalist describes the unique beauty -- and fragility -- of California's Elkhorn Slough Reserve.
by John Moir, Jul 15, 2010 -
Peril in paradise
In The Light in High Places, naturalist Joe Hutto considers Wyoming wilderness, bighorn sheep, cowboys and other rare Western species.
by Cherie Newman, Jul 13, 2010 -
An example and an antidote
In Imagination in Place, his new collection of essays, writer/farmer/poet Wendell Berry shares some of his honest wisdom and sharp-eyed observations.
by Kurt Caswell, Jul 13, 2010
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