The Hopes of Snakes
City Wilds: Essays and Stories About Urban Nature
American Nature Writing, 2000
The Mountain Reader
American Nature Writing 1998
The River Reader
Grrr . . . Poems About Bears
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The Mountain Reader
(Lyons Press, 2000)
“A Clandestine Freedom”
Publishers Weekly
In collaborations with the Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest private conservation group, editor John A. Murray (Out Among the Wolves; A Republic of Rivers) presents The Mountain Reader, a collection of essays by mountain enthusiasts spanning 200 years and three continents. Murray groups the essays under three prominent themes: “communion” (with submissions by Isabel Byrd and Aldo Leopold), “renewal” (Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Pulitzer Prize winner A. B. Guthrie) and “liberation” (Henry David Thoreau, Rick Bass, John Muir). Literary mountaineers will recognize most of the pieces but a handful, including Lisa Couturier’s “A Clandestine Freedom,” are published here for the first time.
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