Ken Ilgunas

Mashable has kindly published my list of recommended books for the “21st Century Environmentalist.” It’s interesting to see how environmental literature has changed from decade to decade. It began with the romantics: folks like Wordsworth, Rousseau, Thoreau, Gilbert White, Muir. These guys — often mixing poetry, philosophy, and naturalist observation — more or less championed the goodness of nature or wilderness. In the early 20th Century, we see folks like Muir and Roosevelt

As publishing lore tells it, the “book tour” used to be a common tool for authors to sell and promote their books, but in recent decades publishing companies have become less eager to commit resources to a marketing strategy that has gotten increasingly less effective. So I was a bit surprised — and honored — when my publisher asked if I’d be interested in going on my own fifteen-city book tour for Trespassing across America. The tour — organized and funded by my publisher —