Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together
twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their
fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a
coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry's
mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of
interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over
generations.
This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985),
Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a
charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.