Records the rise of the Great Salt Lake to record heights in 1983, devastating the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, and the concurrent progress of the Williams's mother's ovarian cancer; Williams reflects on her own exposure to cancer from the Nevada nuclear-weapons testing.

The naturalist author of Refuge and An Unspoken Hunger reflects on what it means to be human, the interconnection between the natural and human worlds, and how they combine to produce both tumult and peace, ugliness and beauty.

Offers a meditation on the meaning of a strange legacy that the author's mother left her--three shelves of the elder woman's "journals," all discovered by the author after her mother's death to be empty.

With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights.

Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into...