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All the books listed here can be purchased directly from WTB.

ANTHOLOGIES OF NATURE WRITING:

EARTHTONES
Twenty Years of Uncommon Nature Writing
edited by Walt McLaughlin

An anthology of nature-related poetry and prose from past contributors and newcomers alike. The works of twenty-five writers active in the literary world appear here -- many of them reprints from past WTB publications. This slender volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of McLaughlin's renegade small press and the spirit that drives it. (WTB, 2005) 76 pages, paperback, $10.00

RIVER´S EDGE
A Fly-Fishing Realm
by Walt Franklin

2008 release. A personal narrative about fly fishing twenty trout streams in Pensylvania and upstate New York, with a heavy emphasis on streamside ecology. (WTB, 2008) 153 pages, paperback, $15.00

A narrative about one man´s brief backpacking excursion into California´s Russian Wilderness with his five-year-old daughter, in search of a moral anchorhold to match these troubled times. While fly fishing backcountry waters and recounting the natural and human history of the region, Mr. Green formulates his worldview. (WTB, 2004) 77 pages, paperback, $10.00

Six short narratives about hiking in the Adirondacks, Vermont´s Green Mountains, New Hampshire´s White Mountains and the Maine Woods. The author reflects upon humankind's ever-changing relationship to nature, life and death, personal responsibility and wildness along the way. (WTB, 2005) 128 pages, paperback, $12.50

A taut narrative about the author´s solitary, two-week sojourn in a remote corner of Southeast Alaska - an undertaking triggered by nagging discontent. What begins as a wilderness dream come true, quickly develops into a visceral challenge to cherished beliefs. (WTB, 2003) 134 pages, paperback, $12.50

2007 release. A collection of informal essays and short narratives set in Vermont backcountry, addressing matters of existence, death and meaning in relation to the wild. (WTB, 2007) 84 pages, paperback, $10.00

Eleven personal essays about fire, water, mountaineering, geologic time, catamounts, backwoods travel, domestication and wildness, in which the author explores the relationships between nature, humanity and the divine. His most introspective work to date. (WTB, 2002) 78 pages, paperback, $10.00

CAMPFIRE PHILOSOPHY
Fragments from a Field Journal
by Walt McLaughlin

2006 release. Excerpts taken from fifteen years of field journals kept by the author, with a heavy emphasis on speculative thought concerning the natural world. (WTB, 2006) 31 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $7.00

STRAY THOUGHTS
Excerpts from a Philosophy Journal
by Walt McLaughlin

A random collection of musings culled from a philosophy journal, providing a certain transparency to an unconventional way of seeing things. This slender volume is designed to both endify and entertain. (WTB, 2009) 26 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $7.00

Beginning with the limits of human understanding, the author outlines a metaphysic that respects deep-forest realities while wrestling with the possibility of natural order in an apparently random universe. (WTB, 2004) 34 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $5.00

A QUICK AND SIMPLE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
by Walt McLaughlin

A no-nonsense guide to the nuts and bolts of self-publishing, designed to help both novice and seasoned writers put their books into print. Written by someone who has worked in the book trade as a writer, bookseller and publisher for nearly thirty years. (WTB, 2005) 28 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $7.00

CULTURED WILDNESS: 21 PARAGRAPHICS
by Rob Faivre

2008 Release A collection of prose poems that presses language to its limits while exploring the relationship between nature and culture in a refreshing new way. (WTB, 2008) 28 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $7.00

Once again Jewell delves into the ephemeral realm while illustrating the power of both nature and emotion. (WTB, 1997) 28 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $4.00

Brief glimpses of the Eternal Other emerge from Jewell´s poetic narrative and imagery as he explores nature, the frailties of the human heart and the unseen connection between the two. Exquisite writing, as illuminating as it is lucid. (WTB, 1989) 28 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $2.50

Once again McLaughlin emerges from the woods with a sheath of new poems and a vision of the world predicated upon the efficacy of the wild: "This dark forest / urges you to abandon / all pretense, to accept / the ways of slick gray rocks / and gnarled roots." (WTB, 2001) 28 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $4.00

Whether immersed in the Alaskan bush or ambling through Vermont´s comparatively benign landscape, McLaughlin responds to wildness with a religious convert´s passion. (WTB, 1997) 24 pages, staple-stitched chapbook, $4.00

Wood Thrush Books Walt McLaughlin, Publisher 85 Aldis Street St. Albans, VT 05478 802-524-6606 walt@woodthrushbooks.com

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