My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is. . . my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness. . . The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date. . . a masterwork.