{I've been reading this, looking at it too. and the previously blogmentioned Margaret Bell's 'When Montana and I Were Young' and Thomas McGuane's perfectly titled 'The Cadence of Grass'
and reading Robert Kaplan's 'Eastward to Tartary' got me to 'The Ends of the Earth' and then Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos which is provoking, thought, ire, and respect-wise. there's passion in it, behind the calm reason, urgency. this is a man who's been to the places that are our possible futures, at least most of the possibles. and he's worried, but steady on and reasoning deeply, looking directly at what scares him. it's like a prayer this kind of scholarship. a strong prayer.}