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Personal essays with practical advice about trail running, mountain life & midlife grit.
Sarah Lavender Smith offers readers so much more than a glimpse of what it's like to run the trails of her beloved Colorado mountains. She writes with heart about running and the place she calls home, with grace about aging with grit, and with delight about the funny, humble, smart, obsessed people who inhabit the trail running community.
Stories of Human and Natural History
From pelicans, to place names, to telephone poles, David Williams is the best kind of guide: knowledgeable, friendly, and articulate the natural world we inhabit in our cities and towns, as well as our wild places. Street Smart Naturalist takes on the best kind of wanders, after which your view of the world feels enlarged and enriched.