Trail to Kanjiroba | Kirkus Reviews
July 13, 2021
DeBuys brings many of the most appealing attributes of memoir and travel and nature writing to bear on humanity’s most significant existential crisis. In 61 brief chapters, which read like travel journal entries, deBuys weaves together geological and evolutionary histories and studies of the planet’s peoples and biodiversity within the context of his participation with the Nomads Clinic, which provides medical care to communities in Nepal’s remote Upper Dolpo region.... A pleasing ray of positivity regarding the planet’s present and future.
Washing Feet in Dolpo
June 7, 2021
The American Scholar, June 7, 2021
“On a medical mission at the top of the world, finding a healing dose of cheerful stoicism.”
Mountain and Prairie
October 1, 2020
William deBuys – Sage of the Southwest
Mountain and Prairie’s podcast interview of William deBuys, renowned writer and conservationist, who is known as one of the most influential thinkers in the modern-day American West. October, 2019.
Orion
April 8, 2020
Together Apart is an Orion web series of letters from isolation. The third conversation is a series of emails between Pulitzer Prize finalist author William deBuys (A Great Aridness, The Last Unicorn, The Walk) and bestselling author and fly-fisherman David James Duncan (The Brothers K, The River Why, My Story as Told by Water). April, 2020.
The New York Times
July 18, 2019
The ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Crowd Wants Access to this Arctic Reserve, July 18, 2019
“Many junkies, before hitting bottom, stoop low enough to steal their mothers’ jewels. That’s what’s happening at a national scale on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska…”
The Colorado
April 12, 2016
A Murat Eyuboglu film, inspired by deBuys’s 1999 book Salt Dreams. deBuys is credited as co-screen writer (with Eyuboglu) and lyricist. the concert version debuted on April 12, 2016 in Houston followed by a May 18, 2016 performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film’s screening schedule is at www.projectcolorado.com.