David Rains Wallace

David Rains Wallace is the author of over twenty books on natural history, conservation, and related subjects. His The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution won the Hohn Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing in 1984.

When I started writing books fifty years ago, I was inspired by Ballantine paperbacks that combined the works of Thoreau, John Muir, and Robinson Jeffers with photographs of the landscapes they des