We are excited to share the recent release of Pulitzer Prize finalist William De Buys‘ new book! His tenth publication, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in An Age of Loss, reflects upon the emotional decompression of his educational journey studying Earth’s changing climate to his physical and spiritual journey offering medical services to residents in Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal. Check in with your local bookstores (Smith Family, Tsunami, J Michaels) for a copy!
William deBuys is an award-winning environmental historian, nature writer, essayist, and conservationist. His second book, River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and he is a Guggenheim Fellow. He also wrote Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California (winner of the Norris Hundley prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association); The Walk (an excerpt of which won the Pushcart Prize); A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the Southwest (winner of the David J Weber-Clements Prize from the Western History Association); Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range; and The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of the Earth’s Rarest Creatures, among other books. His forthcoming book is Discovering the Earth: Beauty and Loss in the High Himalaya. He taught Documentary Studies at the College of Santa Fe in the early 2000s, coaching students in crafting nonfiction writing from fieldwork. For more information, see: http://williamdebuys.com/about-william-debuys/
