Peter M. Leschak, Author Harper Perennial $15.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-06-015667-1
It takes character to live in the sparsely populated, boggy North Woods wilderness of Minnesota, where the snows come in October, and winter temperatures dip to -50 F, where a sure sign of spring is an insect-splattered windshield. Leschak and his...
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Peter M. Leschak, Author University of Minnesota Press $18.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8166-2429-4
Leschak ( Letters from Side Lake ) opens this collection of essays--reprinted from Country Journal , the New York Times , etc.--with a fantasy of his dying in the snow with ravens acting as funeral directors. He writes about life and death in the...
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Peter M. Leschak, Author, P. Leschak, Author . Harper San Francisco $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-251777-7
What is it about their work that makes firefighters so devoted—addicted, even—to the calling? Leschak (Trial by Wildfire), a 20-year veteran wildfire fighter, attempts to answer this question in his contemplative memoir. He focuses...
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