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Bruce Barcott, author of The Measure of a Mountain- Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His feature articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Harper's, Utne Reader, and other publications. He contributes reviews to The New York Times Book Review and the public radio show Living on Earth, and is a former Ted Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado. He lives in Seattle with his wife and their two children.
Thrilling . . . Barcott mashes up adventure, nature writing and biography in a steamy climate of corruption and intrigue. -The New York Times Book Review An absorbing narrative about an unheralded and faraway environmental battle that speaks volumes about the ways of our world-and how an individual might actually change it. This is a great read and an important story. -Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food This fascinating account . . . touches upon greed, corruption, and the legacy of colonialism. . . . Not even Hollywood could invent Sharon Matola [the] plucky American. -Entertainment Weekly This real page-turner of narrative nonfiction is hard to put down. -Booklist Partly Hiaasen-esque, but real life. -New York Post With a plot so multilayered and dramatic that readers will need to remind themselves it's a true account, the narrative achieves the depth of a case study and the accessible intimacy of a short feature. -The Miami Herald
