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No. 0143 Narrative Nonfiction · California

The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands

Josh Jackson

Los Angeles-based furniture maker Josh Jackson had never heard of the Bureau of Land Management and wasn’t all that clear on “public lands”—he just wanted a last-minute place to camp. Then a friend mentioned “BLM lands” and he fell down…

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The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands
No. 0045 Narrative Nonfiction · California

Assembling California

John McPhee

McPhee’s California book, and the fourth of the Annals volumes. He drove I-80 across the state with Eldridge Moores, a Davis geologist who read ancient seafloor for a living, and the story they told is that California isn’t one place.…

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Assembling California
No. 0001 Narrative Nonfiction · California

The Last Season

Eric Blehm

Randy Morgenson spent twenty-eight summers as a backcountry ranger in Sequoia and Kings Canyon, walking a district most people never see, and in July 1996 he didn’t answer the radio. What followed was one of the largest searches in Park…

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The Last Season