Rick Bass

Acclaimed nature writer Rick Bass returns to Auntie’s with his latest book, The black rhinos of Namibia. Bass journeyed into the Namib Desert with a group of former poachers, now conservationists, as they tracked the endangered black rhinos through their ancient African homeland.

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From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there. Rick Bass first made a name for himself as a writer and seeker of rare, iconic animals, including the grizzlies and wolves of the American West. Now he's off on a new, far-flung adventure in the Namib of southwest Africa on the trail of another fascinating, vulnerable species. The black rhino is a 3,000 pound, squinty-eyed giant that sports three-foot-long dagger horns, lives off poisonous plants, and goes for days without water. Human intervention and cutting-edge conservation saved the rhinos--for now--from the brink of extinction brought on by poaching and war. Against the backdrop of one of the most ancient and harshest terrains on earth, Bass, with his characteristic insight and grace, probes the complex relationship between humans and nature and meditates on our role as both destroyer and savior. In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's "The Tree Where Man Was Born," Bass captures a haunting slice of Africa, especially of the "black" rhinos that glow ghostly white in the gleaming sun.

Rick Bass is the author of twenty-six books of fiction and nonfiction, including the forthcoming work of nonfiction The black rhinos of Namibia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). He lives with his family in Montana, where he is a board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council

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Rick Bass , The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana.

Acclaimed author Rick Bass will return to Chapter One to read from his newest book, "The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons At Home In Montana." "The Wild Marsh "is Rick Bass's most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month -- the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor and fecundity of summer, and the bittersweet memories evoked by fall. It is full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the valley -- ruggedness, improvisation and, of course, duct tape. "The Wild Marsh "is also tremendously poignant, especially when Bass reflects on what it means for his young daughters to grow up surrounded by the strangeness and wonder of nature. He shares with them the Yaak's little secrets -- where the huckleberries are best in a dry year, where to find a grizzly's claw marks in an old cedar -- and discovers that passing on this intimate local knowledge, the knowledge of home, is a kind of rare and valuable love. In his account of life in Montana, Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, and a gifted observer. His passion for the place he calls home ensures that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear. (booksense)… (more)

RICK BASS reads from Why I Came West: A Memoir.

We are most delighted to have back over this way, from the beautiful, rugged corner of Montana that holds the Yaak Valley, one of this country's most acclaimed writers, Rick Bass. He makes this welcome return, as he has for the better part of two decades now, for an extraordinary series of works of both fiction and nonfiction. Tonight is occasioned by his newest book, one of the latter, Why I Came West (Houghton Mifflin). (KingRat)… (more)

Rick Bass , Why I Came West: A Memoir.

WHY I CAME WEST: A MEMOIR Award-winning author of many acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, Rick Bass visits to introduce his new book, which eloquently explores how he fell in love with the West—in particular his beloved Yaak Valley in Northwestern Montana— and describes his role as a reluctant environmental activist, unwilling to stand by and watch this treasured place disappear. Bass offers a clear-eyed view of the challenges facing environmentalists and of how our relation to the wilderness is essential to our being human. (booksense)… (more)