An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest
as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every
season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's
River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this
classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback
with a new afterword by the author.
Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural
Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and
southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies,
something about the Gray's River Valley spoke to him when he visited
more than forty years ago. Since then he has lived near the village of
Gray's River, one of the first to be established near the mouth of the
Columbia River and only tenuously connected to the world of the
twenty-first century. Pyle brings Gray's River to life by compressing
those forty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the
people, plants, and animals that make this valley their home, month by
month through the seasons.
Through his loving portrait of one riverside village, Pyle illustrates
how a special place can transform anyone lucky enough to find it. He
shows that you don't have to travel far to see something new every
day--if you know how to look.
