The Island Within - Paperback

by Richard Nelson (Author)

Winner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor's Choice, this is Nelson's lovely and luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest.

Front Jacket

Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.

Author Biography

Richard Nelson is a cultural anthropologist whose previous books include Shadow of the Hunter, Hunters of the Northern Forest, Hunters of the Northern Ice, Make Prayers to the Raven, and The Island Within, for which he won the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding natural history writing. He is also a winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.