Readers who remember my interview with natural history writer David B. Williams already know that he’s at the very top of the list when it comes to covering our region’s past. His study of the myriad modifications our ancestors have made to the local landscape, Too High and Too Steep, was an Island Books Top …
Chris Dombrowski has traveled many of the most elegant, hidden, rugged waterways of Montana. He’s a husband, father, poet and fishing guide, and he’s one of the most generous men I know. If you have the grace of spending time with him, your mind and heart will be renewed, you’ll laugh a great deal, and …
It sounds so unreal you think it must be fiction; but no, it’s true! Greenland, 1942: first a US cargo plane crashes, followed by those of the rescue contingents. Zuckoff’s writing is compelling as he chronicles the events and the expedition 70 years later to find wreckage; you can feel the bitter cold and the roller …
Congratulations to Alaskan author Erin McKittrick! Her book, Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska won the 2014 National Outdoor Book Award in the category of Outdoor Literature. Judges for the National Outdoor Book Awards come from all over the country. They grant awards in the categories of Outdoor …
