"Take a map and find the emptiest spot on the map. A place with the fewest roads and fewest towns. In many of these places I found the best fishing spots but you find other wonderful things, too, such as older architecture that is preserved, more untouched natural areas, friendlier people, less franchised retail operations, and some odd regional things. If you are lucky some of these places will have a lost-in-time feel to them. You have to experience it before it’s gone."

"Sometimes it’s hard to maintain hope when all around us we see signs of disasters—wars, division in philosophy or politics, widening economic gaps. Yet we must move forward, with positive actions and faith in ourselves and the larger community of people who are working to protect nature."

Our conversation with the Xerces Society explores their journey from butterfly conservation to a global mission of protecting all invertebrates, and why you should care about these "little things that run the world."

"If all this book does is help shine a light on the visual and ecological threats still facing that spot on the map our world revolved around, I’ll be happy. It is a precious place."

A chance for readers to virtually join on a 1,700-kilometer kayak journey through the 50,000 islands between Vancouver Island and Alaska.

The story of Greenpeace founder Robert Hunter. “This book is about a very special human being. He touched the hearts and minds of so many people. Not just those people who knew him personally, but also his followers.”