“A Long Walk into an Imperiled Future,” TomDispatch.com, October, 19, 2021. 

Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today, that superb writer and naturalist William deBuys returns to TomDispatch with a piece that offers a sense of his new book, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss. As Bill McKibben, a man whose word I would always take, writes, “Bill deBuys is one of the planet’s great observers, and this may be his masterwork — a story of an exploration of Nepal, but also of the present and future of this planet. Caring for that world, and all that’s in it, is necessary, painful, and as he makes clear, exquisitely beautiful work.”

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Conversation with Laura Paskus concerning The Trail to Kanjiroba

On “New Mexico in Focus,” PBS/ KNME, 7-8 pm MDT, October 22, 2021.

 

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Trail to Kanjiroba | Kirkus Reviews

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.

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