A review of “The Lost World of the Old Ones,” a voyage through Southwestern archaeology.
Michelle Pulich Stewart
Heart cracked wide open
Review of ‘Tom Connor’s Gift’ by David Allan Cates.
Finding an inner compass
Review of “Steal the North” by Brittain Bergstrom.
Embracing parched ground
All the Land to Hold UsRick Bass322 pages, hardcover: $25.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Rick Bass’ fourth novel, All the Land to Hold Us, focuses on human desire and – like the Montana writer’s many previous books – our relationship with the natural world. Richard is a geologist who reads rock layers to find oil, fossils […]
Home is where the compost is
Robert Michael Pyle has synthesized three decades of life in a small community in southwest Washington into this exquisite portrait of place. Each chapter of Sky Time in Gray’s River represents a month of the year in Gray’s River Valley; each brims with vivid moments and vignettes. Pyle, a renowned butterfly expert, has 14 books […]
Travels in a sublime wasteland
It is a gift when an author transports you to the place he loves most. Writer Bill Broyles and photographer Michael Berman accomplish this in Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto, an exquisite portrait of place. Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta and Mexico’s Sierra Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar lie at the heart of […]