An ecologist and writer, Don Gayton was raised in California and Washington. He is the author of two award-winning books of non-fiction. His first book was "The Wheatgrass Mechanism: Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape" (Fifth House, 1990). "Landscapes of the Interior: A Re-exploration of Nature and the Human Spirit" (New Society Publishers, 1996), won the National Outdoor Book Award, Outdoor Literature Category, in the United States, and was shortlisted for a BC Book Award. He has also written for "Equinox", "Canadian Geographic", "Harrowsmith", "NeWest Review", "Books i...