"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild. From the nineteenth century’s Washington Irving (“Rip Van Winkle”) to...

A collection of stories on the outdoors. In one, a woman's life is changed by a meeting with a bear, a second is on a fishing expedition as seen by a little girl, and in a third, a man seeking a return to nature runs into a deadly snowstorm