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In high school I sold my first magazine article—a piece for Outdoor Life about fly-fishing for bass, one of my favorite pastimes. Easy money, I thought. Seems like a good way to make a living.
Maybe I was wrong about the money. But freelancing has been a good living, letting me write about the things I find gratifying and fascinating. Writing often leads me back to the natural world—to Lake Superior to hear the legends that animate the world's largest freshwater lake, to the mountains of China to search for the elusive South China tiger, and to the clear Minnesota creek where I first discovered the joy of fly-fishing.
My books about travel and the natural world include Super Volcano, the story of the active volcano beneath Yellowstone that could wipe out a sixth of the world's population, and Wild Shore, an account of two seasons kayaking around Superior. Return of the Eagle, the illustrated story of how America saved its national symbol, has just been revised and reprinted.
And look for my newest book — A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It — to be published this fall by Borealis Books. Think Christmas and what to get the ice-fishermen in your life.
My essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Audubon, Islands, Wildlife Conservation, Minnesota Monthly and many other publications.
Explore my web site. Visit places and meet people I've come to know over the years.