Say Goodbye To The River: Stories From The Vanishing Wilderness

With this book Craig takes us into deep green forests beside fast silver waters where trout rise on long hikes over hills flamed by autumn and along slopes of tall sharp mountains. He takes us into his youth. Everything in the Pacific Northwest of another century comes to life--the people the animals that make their way along wide or narrow trails a thriving wilderness of woods and brush and alpine flower. Even the trucks cabins fishing gear and rutted roads of a long-gone era fill our imaginations as Craigs rich and evocative writing takes hold. His thoughts his contemplations and his regrets weave seamlessly in and out of a golden time when the sun shone bright the rain fell true and the seasons rolled over the shoulders of a young man bursting into life like the leaves on a spring poplar. Think Norman Macleans A River Runs Through It Ernest Hemingways Big Two-Hearted River Faulkners The Bear and Sigurd Olsons The Singing Wilderness. Nature writing and the writing of the heart at its very best.Murray Pura author of Majestic and Wild (Baker) The Zoya Septet (MillerWords) A Road Called Love (HarperCollins)