“Rick Bass has something important to say, and he says it good.”—Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Rick Bass is one of the most important American writers of his generation. In literary-historical terms, he takes his place among legends such as Edward Abbey, John Graves, Aldo Leopold, and Annie Dillard, among others, as a notable nature essayist.”—W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film