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FIBER
Fiber is a story about the ravages of activism and the healing properties of art. It is a story about last chances, about crafting solutions from the wreckage of a devastated place, and about the high cost, emotionally and physically, of hope in the presence of despair. Writing from the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana, the wildest valley in the Lower 48, Rick Bass brilliantly portrays the plight of the artist deeply embedded in a place he loves. The author asks how a writer survives amidst the destruction of the natural world around him, if, like Bass, the writer must struggle passionately to protect a place like the Yaak from further damage. Fiber is graceful, startling, and gripping work by one of the most significant voices in contemporary fiction and nature writing. (From the book jacket)

THE NEW WOLVES
The New Wolves is Rick Bass’s passionate and eloquent account of the current reintroduction of the Mexican wolf to the American Southwest. With the literary talent and naturalist’s sensibility he brought to his highly praised 1992 account of a family of wolves in Montana, The Ninemile Wolves, Rick Bass examines the circumstances of the Mexican wolves’ arrival: the exhausted, overgrazed soil of the land, the behavior and requirements of wolves, and the concerns of ranchers, biologists, and environmentalists. He chronicles these new wolves’ first few months of freedom: their triumphant desire to survive as well as the unfortunate and sometimes deadly confrontations with the unexpected.

“The New Wolves is an enthralling and brilliant book on the reintroduction of wolves in the American Southwest…written out of the activist lineage of Edward Abbey and Douglas Peacock, it is especially passionate but with the novelist’s eye for vivid details.”—Jim Harrison

CARIBOU RISING
The eloquent voice of Rick Bass has been raised often in celebration and defense of America’s wilderness and wildlife. In Caribou Rising, Bass journeys to one of the sole remaining landscapes on Earth where the wild is entirely untrammeled—Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where great caribou herds gather, calve, and migrate, and where the ancient bond between animals and human hunters still informs daily life.

"Rick Bass says we must not destroy an ancient culture and another ecosystem for petroleum. Simple as that. Caribou Rising is a great read and utterly compelling in its reasoning. Bravo!"--William Kittredge, author of The Nature of Generosity and The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge

"Rick Bass, the gifted novelist and our most prolific western conservation writer, turns his keen hunter's eye to the besieged caribou land of the Gwich-'in--the Brooks Range and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As an ex-gas and oil geologist, Bass argues with logic and passion, blasting away at the ignorance and greed of the Bush Administration's misled campaign to open the refuge to drilling."--Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years and inspiration for the rabble-rousing Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang

COLTER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE BEST DOG I EVER HAD
Colter was the runt of the litter, and Rick Bass took him only because nobody else would. Soon, though, Bass realized he had a raging genius on his hands, and he raided his daughters’ college fund to send Colter to the best schools. Colter could be a champion, Bass was told, but he’d have to be broken, slowed down. Bass “could no more imagine a slowing-down Colter than a slow-motion bolt of lightning in the sky,” and instead of breaking Colter, he followed him into new territory, an unexpected land where he felt more alive, more intimately connected to the world, than he’d ever felt before.

In the course of telling us Colter’s story, Rick Bass also tells us of his childhood fascination with snapping turtles and dirt, and of the other animals—including people—that have shaped his life.

Colter is an interspecies love story that vividly captures the relationship between humans and dogs. Like all of Bass’s work, it is passionate, poetic, and original.

“Colter is one of the best books I’ve ever read about dogs or hunting. It is told in a voice that speaks about the beauty of the natural world and one man’s love for it. It is heartbreaking yet uplifting, and Rick Bass only gets better and better.”—Larry Brown

IN MY HOME THERE IS NO MORE SORROW: TEN DAYS IN RWANDA

Rick Bass traveled to Rwanda with his youngest daughter, and the author Terry Tempest Williams, roaming from the bustle of Kigali to the volcanic preserves of the last few mountain gorillas. Now, in his thirtieth book, he offers an extraordinary portrait of what can be found in that country today—heartbreaking evidence of the genocide that occurred a generation ago, breathtaking natural beauty, and young people who have emerged from unimaginable tragedy with a blazingly optimistic spirit and a profound artistic voice. In My Home There is No More Sorrow is an enchanting exploration of history and human nature from one of our greatest essayists.