1968

The Back Country

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder is the poet who worked Sierra trail crews and fire lookouts, spent a decade in a Kyoto Zen monastery, and later won the Pulitzer for Turtle Island. The Back Country, 1968, is four sections that map his life…

The Pine Barrens

John McPhee

A million acres of sand and pitch pine in the middle of the most crowded state in the country, sitting on an aquifer holding trillions of gallons of clean water, with almost nobody living in it. McPhee spent months there…