The Klamath Knot Explorations of Myth and Evolution [Paperback]

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for Literature 1984, and named one of the twentieth century's best nonfiction books by theSan Francisco Chronicle, The Klamath Knot,originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1983, is a personal vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of evolutionary mythology. David Rains Wallace uses his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region to ponder the role of evolution and myth in our culture. The author's new epilogue makes a case for the creation of a new park to safeguard this exceptionally rich storehouse of relict species and evolutionary stories, which has largely been bypassed by conservationists since John Muir.

David Rains Wallaceis the author of over a dozen books, includingThe Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age(1999),The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America(1997), andThe Quetzal and the Macaw: The Story of Costa Rica's National Parks(1992).

The Klamath Knotis a classic work of natural history, a wondrous meditation through time and space, and an intimate portrait of a miraculous stretch of land, forest, and mountain as botanically rich as any place in North America, as ecologically vital and important as any place on the planet. Wade Davis, author ofOne River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

In Wallace's hands, evolution is never mechanical or abstract; it is always seen operating in particular sites and species. As a stylist and a thinker Wallace is in a select class of writers who make science into literature. Ernest Callenbach, author ofEcotopia

For those of us who like David Rains Wallace's writing, it is good news indeed that his much-admiredThe Klamath Knotis back inl£5