Receiving a book award for a book without any words was a bit of a surprise and has left me slightly uneasy. It is not as though I think of my book The Great War – a 24-sheet foldout illustration depicting the Battle of the Somme – as unworthy of attention and enormous sales. It …
Though I am a southwesterner by birth and possibly by inclination, I have lived much of my adult life in the Northwest. Fifteen years ago my wife and I bought 40 acres in the remote mountains of northern Idaho where we spent altogether too much of our time fixing fence, cutting firewood and plowing snow. …
