Clear Creek

Erik Reece is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Utopia Drive and Lost Mountain, which won Columbia University's John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Kentucky.

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Erik Reece is an important writer, and his deeply observed and well-researched natural history pulses back and forth with ideas. We need more books like this out in the world, books that give us hints for how to be in a time of crisis."-David Gessner, author of Leave It as It Is: A Journey through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness"A wise, rambling book that is equal parts memoir, natural history, and philosophical investigation. Erik Reece leads that rarest and most important of things, an examined life. Readers of Barry Lopez and Wendell Berry will find much to admire here."-Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die "In Clear Creek, Erik Reece distinguishes between indoor philosophy and outdoor philosophy, as I myself distinguish between indoor books and outdoor books. Since Reece has bounced his ideas off stars and clouds, sunfish and jewelweed, herons, caterpillars, campfire flames, and his wild friends Whitman, Thoreau, and Epicurus, his book is altogether an outdoor book, full of starry, grassy, fiery ideas, and is itself a wild and wise new friend."- Amy Leach, author of The Everybody Ensemble