Description: An award winning scholar's coming-of-age memoir with gorgeous archival and contemporary color photographs of creatures and places of a bygone world. Childhood creeks and woodland haunts come alive through tales of youthful encounters brought to light in a lyrical recollection of nature discovered over the back fence of the author's childhood home
Brief description: Douglas L. Murray is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University. He has published extensively on international development, agriculture, health and the environment, including Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994; and Fair Trade: The challenges of transforming globalization. London and New York: Routledge, 2007; with co-editors Laura T. Raynolds and John Wilkerson. He has been a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellow in the Program on Peace and International Cooperation, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow. He is currently working on the second in a series of natural history memoirs, In Search of the Paper Nautilus - Life is a Beach Afterall, while relishing self-isolation in his mountain retreat on the Phantom Canyon Ranch. For communication with the author send email to dmurray@colostate.edu