Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience.
He is also a highly regarded keynote speaker at conservation and outdoor education gatherings around the country and is currently on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop Masters of Fine Arts program at Pacific Lutheran University..
He is the author of nineteen books on science and nature, including the award-winning Hawk\'s Rest.
About the Author: Over the past twenty-five years Gary Ferguson has established himself as an expert chronicler of nature, having written for a wide variety of publications from Vanity Fair to The Los Angeles Times.
Theirs was a love borne of wild places, and The Carry Home offers a powerful glimpse into how the natural world can be a critical prompt for moving through cycles of immeasurable grief, how bereavement can turn to wonder, and how one man rediscovered himself in the process of saying goodbye.
The act of the Carry Home allows Ferguson the opportunity to ruminate on their life together as well as explore deeply the impactful presence of nature in all of our lives.
Confronting his unthinkable loss, Ferguson set out to fulfill Jane\'s final wish: the scattering of her ashes in five remote, wild locations they loved and shared.
The Carry Home is both a moving celebration of the outdoor life shared between Ferguson and his wife Jane, who died tragically in a canoeing accident in northern Ontario in 2005, and a chronicle of the mending, uplifting power of nature.
But nothing could prepare him for the experience he details in his new book.
He journeyed 250 miles on foot for Hawks Rest and followed through the seasons the first fourteen wolves released into Yellowstone National Park for The Yellowstone Wolves.
He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program for Shouting at the Sky.
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience
