THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN Stanley Kunitz, U.S. Poet Laureate, one among his many honors, published The Wild
THE WILDLANDS Every once in a while I read a book so stunning that I can’t find the words to write a review. Such is
COYOTE AMERICA, OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM’S MOURNFUL HOWL Although Coyote America is about the common American coyote, the title suggests, and its content delivers, a complex view
MY LAST CONTINENT On one level Midge Raymond’s novel, My Last Continent, shadows the initial attraction and then the developing love between Deb and Keller.
THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS When the proprietress of Seaport Books, in La Conner, Washington, recommended Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus, I must
RANTS FROM THE HILL In 2010, the High Country News editors asked Mike Branch to write a monthly column for its online edition. They asked
RAISING WILD, DISPATCHES FROM A HOME IN THE WILDERNESS Michael P. Branch, author of a book of essays titled Raising Wild, manages what some would
ANTHEM FOR A BURNISHED LAND: WHAT WE LEAVE IN THIS DESERT OF WORK AND WORDS Sitting alongside the Little Walker River last weekend, contemplating Nevada’s
WILD AT HEART, MUSTANGS AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE FIGHTING TO SAVE THEM Wild at Heart should be in the hands of every horse lover, young or
Four Seasons in Rome – On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World Reportedly, Anthony Doerr took ten years to
The Invention of Nature – Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Territorial Nevadans in the 19th century considered naming their new state-to-be Humboldt. Instead, the famous
Pacific – Silicon Chips and Surf Boards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers Simon
A Cafecito Story Heads up, readers! Summer is gone, fall is still falling, goblins have spooked, the really big bird has been eaten, and then
Heartbroke Bay: A Novel of Alaska To tell the story of Heartbroke Bay, an Alaskan fjord known locally as Lituya Bay and now part of
Is it possible for a novel to be both an apocalyptic and a coming of age story? Or would that be a literary oxymoron, an
I never cease to thrill at the sight of a hawk sailing effortlessly on a thermal, wings spread, focusing on the ground below and a
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