Yep, this review probably contains spoilers. Also, because its themes address directly environmental issues, I’ve given it a more thorough critical treatment than I gave The Charge at Feather River. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read it. Finally, this movie contains intense battle scenes and a frightening pirate villain, either of which [...]
Mark Twain on the tundra: At times, that’s how this 1963 classic played to my mind. Farley Mowat’s sense of humor—often self-directed—and the acuity of his social criticism reminded me so much of Twain’s acerbic wit that I found myself reading Mowat but seeing in the text Sam Clemens’ ghost—flowing white hair, white mustache, white [...]
I’m getting ready to crack the spine on Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Over a year ago, I heard her read a little from the pre-publication draft and attended a workshop she conducted. It was apparent to me that she had changed her approach to her audience somewhat as well [...]
The Ellen Meloy Fund has awarded their grant of $2000 to Amy Irvine, author of Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, to support her work on her upcoming book, Terra Firma. This is the fund’s fourth annual grant.
She competed for this grant last year, too, when the award went to Joe Wilkins.
Since then, [...]
Wyman Meinzer. Coyote. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1995. 128 pages. Cloth: $19.95; ISBN 0-89672-353-4.
Coyote is classified as a “pictorial work,” a coffee-table book. Of its 128 pages, only the first 44 contain text; captioned, gorgeous photos of coyotes that the author took himself during his many years of coyote research fill out the book’s bulk.
The textual material of [...]