Terrain.org reviews in this issue:
  

A Paddler’s Journey Down a Modern Southern Riverway
Hal Crimmel reviews My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas, by John Lane

John Lane’s latest nonfiction book, My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas, is the sort paddlers dream of writing: a book that captures all of the passion and all the ambivalence about a beloved river and region. Like other classic river narratives — Edward Abbey’s essays in Down the River, R.M. Patterson’s Dangerous River, Michael Burke’s The Same River Twice: A Boatman’s Journey Home, or Ellen Meloy’s Raven’s Exile — the book is by turns provoking, exhilarating, nerve-wracking, and soothing, providing the full quiver of emotions one experiences when descending a river.
  
  

The Joy of Walking: Stories from an Outlaw Trail
Megan Kimble reviews Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America, by Ron Strickland

or the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail (PNT), that someone was Ron Strickland. Strickland spent the better part of his youth bushwhacking through the Northwestern United States, physically carving much of the PNT across 1,200 miles of Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America is the story of that journey. Strickland surveyed hills, cut down trees, trampled ground, and hammered in stakes, transforming the PNT from a concept to a reality.

Invisible Migrations
Andrew C. Gottlieb reviews Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Sing: Poetry from the Indiginous Americas is an ambitious and remarkable book of poetry spanning a wide geographic range and presenting poets from a varied background — from newer, younger poets to some of the senior indigenous poets of our time. Structured into six sections and a prelude, more than 80 poets and writers are included here and many are represented in multiple languages.

A Book, a Story, and Knock-Knock Joke or Two
Simmons B. Buntin reviews Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, by Sandra Steingraber

Sandra’s third book of nonfiction, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, would then seem to be the logical extension of the first two books, both in memoir and science. And it is. Yet it is much more, because where Having Faith shifted dramatically and sometimes disconcertingly between science and memoir, Raising Elijah braids the two seamlessly, resulting in a book that is at once fascinating and frightening, lyrical and logical, funny and powerful.