Wild Comfort The Solace of Nature

Not just an update! Following in the footsteps of the newly released Volume 1, Volume 2 offers 250 more characters in the extremely useful learning format that learners and teachers alike continue to praise. Volume 2 offers: Approximately 50% brand new material, with the other 50% also completely revised from the 1st edition. New design, and new illustrations; the pages look clear, modern, and inviting, and help learners to focus on the important aspects of each character. Now includes all the bells and whistles that learners, and teachers, really want: tips for mastery throughout; special exercises in AP-exam format; progressive review sections; and several indexes.

Kathleen Dean Moore lives in Oregon, at the confluence of two rivers, and, during the summer months, she resides in a little cabin at the edge of a southeast Alaskan inlet. As an essayist, activist, and professor, she brings together natural history, philosophical ideas, and creative expression in a search for loving ways to live on the earth. She has published three books of personal essays about living in the lively places where water meets land: Riverwalking, Holdfast, and The Pine Island Paradox. Her essays can be found in many journals, including Audubon, Discover, Orion, and the New York Times Magazine. Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State, where she teaches courses on environmental thought and ethics. She is also the cofounder and director of Oregon State’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.