New York: Lyons & Burford, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Oregon author's first collection of essays on nature. "Her writing, like that of Annie Dillard or Edward Hoagland, shows us a vast, complex, partly hidden and startling world that has always been right before our eyes. In these twenty elegant and provocative essays, she invites us to travel through the West with her, and often with her family, as she rafts down rapids, hikes through dunes, camps in the desert, and walks along riverbanks." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens, and dated in the year of publication. xiv, 160 pp. ISBN: 1-558214089.