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Ron Ellis, Foreword by Rick Bass COGAN'S WOODS
PRUETT PUB CO. 1616084030 / 9781616084035 Paperback BOOK
'Cogan's Woods is a fond remembrance of a journey taken each August in the family Mercury, with the author and his father cruising toward dawn and the big woods in the imagined country of Belden County, Kentucky. While on these hunting trips, the father would convey his legacy to the boy as they explored the foggy woods in the hills above the Ohio River and the nearby town of Persimmon Gap.
This lyrical account of a beloved time and place celebrates a father-son relationship nurtured by a landscape that shapes the men and draws them back year after year. In the end, what settles into the author's heart is this simple mantra, shared with him first by an old gravedigger through a haze of lantern smoke and then years later by his dying father in a darkened room: "It's important to remember, it's so important to remember."
REVIEWS
'A celebration of cherished things.' 'Rick Bass
'Ellis recreates the tastes and sounds of rural America with scenes that ...are kept fresh by his devotion to quiet, lovely detail.' 'Publishers Weekly
'A sparkling metaphor for life well-lived.' 'The Cincinnati Post
'A wonderfully textured portrait of a father and son.' 'Nick Lyons
'Ron Ellis spins a magical memoir.' 'Kentucky Enquirer
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Rick Bass Colter: The True Story Of The Best Dog I Ever Had
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0618127364 / 9780618127368 Paperback BOOK
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Colter pairs one of America's most treasured writers with our most treasured "best friend." The runt of the litter, Colter, a German shorthair pup, surprises Rick Bass first with his raging genius, then with his innocent ability to lead his owner to a new territory altogether, a place where Bass feels instantly more connected to the world. 5x8 inches, 208 pgs.
'Colter was the runt of the litter, and Rick Bass took him only because nobody else would. Soon, though, Bass realized he had a raging genius on his hands, and he raided his daughters' college fund to send Colter to the best schools. Colter could be a champion, Rick was told, but he'd have to be broken, slowed down. Rick "could no more imagine a slowing-down Colter than a slow-motion bolt of lightning in the sky, " and instead of breaking Colter he followed him. Colter led him into new territory, an unexplored land where he felt more alive, more intimately connected to the world, than he'd ever been before. In the course of telling us Colter's story, Rick Bass also tells us of his childhood fascination with snapping turtles and dirt, and of the other animals - including people - that have shaped his life. Colter is an interspecies love story that vividly captures the relationship between humans and dogs. Like all of Bass's work, it is passionate, poetic, and original.
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Rick Bass Colter: The True Story Of The Best Dog I Ever Had
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0395926181 / 9780395926185 Hardcover BOOK
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Colter pairs one of America's most treasured writers with our most treasured "best friend." The runt of the litter, Colter, a German shorthair pup, surprises Rick Bass first with his raging genius, then with his innocent ability to lead his owner to a new territory altogether, a place where Bass feels instantly more connected to the world. 5x8 inches, 208 pgs.
'Colter was the runt of the litter, and Rick Bass took him only because nobody else would. Soon, though, Bass realized he had a raging genius on his hands, and he raided his daughters' college fund to send Colter to the best schools. Colter could be a champion, Rick was told, but he'd have to be broken, slowed down. Rick "could no more imagine a slowing-down Colter than a slow-motion bolt of lightning in the sky, " and instead of breaking Colter he followed him. Colter led him into new territory, an unexplored land where he felt more alive, more intimately connected to the world, than he'd ever been before. In the course of telling us Colter's story, Rick Bass also tells us of his childhood fascination with snapping turtles and dirt, and of the other animals - including people - that have shaped his life. Colter is an interspecies love story that vividly captures the relationship between humans and dogs. Like all of Bass's work, it is passionate, poetic, and original.
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Rick Bass, Editor The Roadless Yaak: Reflections & Observations About One Of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS 1585745456 / 9781585745456 Hardcover BOOK
27 essays about a rich, yet fragile, northwestern Montana ecosystem. 6X9 inches, 256 pgs.
'This collection of essays'27 in all'about the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana brings to life the wilderness and isolation, exhilaration and trepidation that visitors (and residents) encounter here. The half-million-acre Yaak Valley is home to only 150 people but untold numbers of grizzly bears, cougars, and other critters, big and small. An astonishing 175,000 acres remain roadless in this remote area near the Canadian border. Read about a mother who spends Thanksgiving weekend in the Yaak with her children. ''the Yaak is where my children and I together, have fallen headlong into the glory of the unfamiliar, into the last of the planet's wilderness, the unpredictability of the natural landscape, the authentic hush possible only away from the clamor' (Traveling Close to Home, Debra Gwartney). You will learn about a teacher who is torn between the world beyond the Yaak and the life he has come to know: mountains, thick forests, snow, and bears. And you will learn why we as a people must protect wilderness like this for future generations.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS:
' Todd Tanner
' Bill McKibben
' Gregory McNamee
' Jeff Ferderer
' Amy Edmonds
' Scott Daily
' John Lane-Zucker
' Sue Halpern
' Time Lenhan
' Debra Gwartney
' Bob Shacochis
' Doug Peacock
' Annick Smith
' William Kittredge
' Jim Fergus
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rick Bass is the author of over a dozen highly acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction, including Platte River, The Ninemile Wolves, The Watch, Oil Notes, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, and Where the Sea Used to Be. He lives with his wife and daughters in northwest Montana.
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Rick Bass, Editor The Roadless Yaak: Reflections & Observations About One Of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS 1592281370 / 9781592281374 Paperback BOOK
An important book containing 27 essays about a rich, yet fragile, northwestern Montana ecosystem. 6x9 inches, 256 pgs.
'This collection of essays'27 in all'about the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana brings to life the wilderness and isolation, exhilaration and trepidation that visitors (and residents) encounter here. The half-million-acre Yaak Valley is home to only 150 people but untold numbers of grizzly bears, cougars, and other critters, big and small. An astonishing 175,000 acres remain roadless in this remote area near the Canadian border. Read about a mother who spends Thanksgiving weekend in the Yaak with her children. ''the Yaak is where my children and I together, have fallen headlong into the glory of the unfamiliar, into the last of the planet's wilderness, the unpredictability of the natural landscape, the authentic hush possible only away from the clamor' (Traveling Close to Home, Debra Gwartney). You will learn about a teacher who is torn between the world beyond the Yaak and the life he has come to know: mountains, thick forests, snow, and bears. And you will learn why we as a people must protect wilderness like this for future generations.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS:
' Todd Tanner
' Bill McKibben
' Gregory McNamee
' Jeff Ferderer
' Amy Edmonds
' Scott Daily
' John Lane-Zucker
' Sue Halpern
' Time Lenhan
' Debra Gwartney
' Bob Shacochis
' Doug Peacock
' Annick Smith
' William Kittredge
' Jim Fergus
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
'The wilderness is our treasure, and if we squander it, these writers warn, we squander not only our heritage but our essential spirit.'
'The New York Times
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rick Bass is the author of over a dozen highly acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction, including Platte River, The Ninemile Wolves, The Watch, Oil Notes, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, and Where the Sea Used to Be. He lives with his wife and daughters in northwest Montana.
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Rick Bass The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons At Home In Montana
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0547055161 / 9780547055169 Hardcover BOOK
Full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the Yaak valley, ruggedness, improvisation &, of course, duct tape, Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, & a gifted observer, uniquely able to bring us close to the drama & sanctity of small things, ensuring that the voice of the wilderness will not disappear. 6x9 inches, 384 pgs.
'The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass's most mature, full account of life in the Yaak & a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, & captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month ' the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor & fecundity of summer, & the bittersweet memories evoked by fall.
It is full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the valley ' ruggedness, improvisation &, of course, duct tape. The Wild Marsh is also tremendously poignant, especially when Bass reflects on what it means for his young daughters to grow up surrounded by the strangeness & wonder of nature. He shares with them the Yaak's little secrets ' where the huckleberries are best in a dry year, where to find a grizzly's claw marks in an old cedar ' & discovers that passing on this intimate local knowledge, the knowledge of home, is a kind of rare & valuable love.
Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, & a gifted observer, uniquely able to bring us close to the drama & sanctity of small things, ensuring that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.
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Rick Bass Why I Came West: A Memoir
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0547237715 / 9780547237718 Hardcover BOOK
A poignant look at the 30-year journey of one of our country?s great naturalist writers, learn how Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West: as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, & as a way of life. 6x8 inches, 256 pgs.
'A passionate memoir about the great divides in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley, the West as a whole, and himself.
A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West: as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. Bass grew up in the suburban sprawl of Houston, and after attending college in Utah he spent eight years working in Mississippi as a geologist, until one day he packed up and headed west in search of something visceral, true, and real. He found it in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, a unique place, neither national park nor government- sanctioned wilderness, where despite extensive logging not a single species has gone extinct since the last Ice Age.
Bass has lived in 'the Yaak' ever since and in a series of moving chapters describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws and continual rebirth, just beyond whatever was near it; and he describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist'sometimes at odds with his own neighbors'unable and unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured place disappear.
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Rick Bass Why I Came West: A Memoir
HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN CO 0618596755 / 9780618596751 Hardcover BOOK
A poignant look at the 30-year journey of one of our country?s great naturalist writers, learn how Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West: as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, & as a way of life. 6x8 inches, 256 pgs.
'A passionate memoir about the great divides in Rick Bass's beloved Yaak Valley, the West as a whole, and himself.
A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West: as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. Bass grew up in the suburban sprawl of Houston, and after attending college in Utah he spent eight years working in Mississippi as a geologist, until one day he packed up and headed west in search of something visceral, true, and real. He found it in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, a unique place, neither national park nor government- sanctioned wilderness, where despite extensive logging not a single species has gone extinct since the last Ice Age.
Bass has lived in 'the Yaak' ever since and in a series of moving chapters describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the rugged, wild landscape smoothed out his own rough edges; attempts to define the appeal of the West that so transfixed him as a boy, a place of mountains and outlaws and continual rebirth, just beyond whatever was near it; and he describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist'sometimes at odds with his own neighbors'unable and unwilling to stand idly by and watch this treasured place disappear.
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