The River You Touch By Chris Dombrowski

Introduction

Chris answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of Montana. Transplants from the post-industrial Midwest, he and his partner, Mary, assemble a life based precariously on her income as a schoolteacher, his as a poet and fly-fishing guide. Before long, their first child arrives, followed soon after by two more, all free beings in whom flourishes an essential kind of knowing [], whose capacity for wonder may be the beacon by which we see ourselves through this dark epoch. And around the young family circles a community of friendsriver-rafting guides and conservationists, climbers and wildlife biologistswho seek to cultivate a way of living in place that moves beyond the mythologized West of appropriation and extraction.. 5.5×8.5 inches, 304 pgs.