Stalking the Faraway Places

From dust jacket notes: "Since his most recent book appeared two years ago, Euel Gibbons, America's favorite nature writer, has been crisscrossing the North American continent, searching out new places and ways to live off the land, and new wild foods to prepare. Here, now, in one warm, wonderful volume, is his glowing account of those two years. He takes us rafting on Mexico's Sea of Cortez; searching for the foods used by ancient Indians in the mesa country of the western U.S.; surviving adventurously, Robinson Crusoe-style, on a tiny windswept island off the coast of Maine; and on to Canada to hear the sound of flowers blooming on a still night. Gibbons also offers more of 'his typically optimistic observations on the ecological situation - the Chesapeake Bay won't die, folks, because he says so. And he warns against "shotgun medicines" (beware ampicillin - it "eradicated the lactobacilli that reside in my intestinal tract"), discourses on the snail ("are humans really smart as snails?"), composes a poem to the queen bee,'* and shares his thoughts about the need to preserve the quality of life around us. Among the states Euell Gibbons explores in this book are Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah, with forays into Mexico and Canada for further natural wonders and wild edibles." *Kirkus Reviews