All in Non Fiction
Kaufman has painted watercolor maps of the state according to it’s mountain ranges, watersheds, forests, weather patterns, deserts, wildlife, parks and protected lands, counties, and what he describes as a “rewilded” future, how water and forest could reclaim that landscape without human interference.
Anticipating my summer camping trip I picked up Ruby McConnell's A Woman's Guide to the Wild to get in the mood and pick up some new tips. It's an inviting little handbook written to empower novice outdoors women in accessing and enjoying the wild world beyond the cityscape.
Rebecca Solnit's slim volume brings to mind the Flaming Lips lyric, "a spoonful weighs a ton." They are referencing the density of planetary mass, but it's the right sentiment for this lean, intelligent set of essays in which each small bite of content feels like a meal, it is so filling with substance.
