A Family's Adventures in the Wilderness

This book describes the joy of family life on a very remote mountaintop farm. There is moonlit sledding, fall garden harvesting, a world of birds and wild animals, all punctuated by the father’s long daily commute to a real world job. Values of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and being a part of nature are exemplified.

An Appreciation

In addition to being one of the most prolific nature writers of our time and the world's greatest expert on Central American birds, Alexander Skutch was an inspiring moral philosopher and original thinker in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir. Alexander Skutch: An Appreciation includes selections from Skutch's writing spanning his 70 years of contributions to ornithology, travel, nature and philosophy.