Thu, Sep 12
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Sharman Apt Russell, What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
Nature and science writer Sharman Apt Russell will be in conversation with with Martha Schumann Cooper, a contributor to First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 12, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here
Pre-order What Walks This Way (paperback, $24, publishes August 2024) from CW here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
What Walks This Way
Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.
The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife―mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice―near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a…