"After
we've lost a natural place, it's gone for everyone - hikers,
campers, boaters, bicyclists, animals watchers, fishers, hunters,
and wildlife - a complete and absolutely democratic tragedy
of emptiness. For this reason, it's vital that we overcome our
differences, find common ground in our shared love for the natural
world, and work together to defend the wild."
Richard Nelson is a cultural anthropologist whose previous books
include Shadow of the Hunter, Hunters
of the Northern Forest, Hunters of the
Northern Ice, Make Prayers to the Raven,
and The Island Within, for which he
won the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding natural history writing.
He is also winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.
He is a wildlife watcher, conservationist, a subsistence hunter,
and an anthropologist fascinated with humankind and our relationships
to wild animals.
His newest book Heart and Blood has
been likened to "the work of Rachel Carson."
