If you enjoyed books like "A Sand County Almanac" or "A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek," you ll love "Words from a Wide Land." Barney brings insights of people and places, natural phenomena, birds, animals, insects, and other things he has encountered in many years of living and traveling.
In these entries (a year s worth, though not in chronological order by year), can be found humor, romance, delight, philosophy, even terror. He has measured the life about him with a flair, which at times bursts into poetry.
From the book: September 6, 1977. The migration of birds resembles Pickett s...