In a series of contemplative and lyrical essays, the environmental activist offers a loving tribute to the landscape, plants, and animals of his native Montana. 15,000 first printing.
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David James Duncan is the author of two novels,<b> The River Why</b> and <b>The Brothers K</b>, and <b>River Teeth</b>, a joint memoir and collection of stories. <b>The River Why </b>ranks thirty-fifth on the San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Books of the American West. <b>The Brothers K</b> is an American Library Association Best Books Award-winner and a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book. Both novels won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.<br><br>Duncan has read and lectured all over the United States on wilderness, the writing life, the nonmonastic contemplative life, the fly fishing life, and nonreligious literature of faith. His work has appeared in <i>Harper's</i>, <i>Outside, Orion, The Sun, Sierra, Big Sky Journal, Northern Lights, Gray's
"This book is the Desert Solitaire of water."--Jim Harrison
"Original, skillful, and funny as hell."--Ian Frazier
"My Story as told by Water is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth."--Thomas McGuane|ords, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly rod in hand, I didn't feel I was 'outside' at all: I was traveling further and further in." An estimated three thousand river walks later comes <b>My Story as Told by Water</b>, in which Duncan braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into an irresistibly distinctive whole, speaking with a power and urgency that will recharge our national appreciation of the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-covered planet.<br><br>Offering a wide-ranging, contemplative exploration of the rivers that touch his life, Duncan backs his insights with a fierce defense of the sacred cultures and fauna that living waters sustain. With a bracing blend of story, logic, science, and comedy, he dissects th
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