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BOOKS

 

THE RIVER WHY

People: “A small national treasure.”  

The New York Times: “A whirlwind, madcap, humorous and sensitive novel.” 

 

RIVER TEETH

Stories and Writings

Publishers Weekly: “These vignettes are first-person, succinct, and uniformly powerful... Marvelous nuggets mined from a complex, absurd and magical life.”

 

THE BROTHERS K

The Wall Street Journal: “The Brothers K is the baseball entry in The Best Book Ever Written contest.”

buzzfeed.com: “The Brothers K is the Great American Novel you haven’t read.”

 

MY STORY AS TOLD BY WATER

Jim Harrison: “This book is the Desert Solitaire for water.”

The Oregonian: “For all its focused fury, My Story as told by Water is ultimately about the many forms and faces of love.” 

 

GOD LAUGHS & PLAYS

Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

Bill McKibben in Resurgence: “This is the book for everyone who is allergic to what often passes for Christianity but attracted to Jesus. Beautifully written and wonderfully, humorously, deeply felt... Duncan is a scandal both to the institutional church and to secular snobs: a truly dangerous man.” 

 

THE HEART OF THE MONSTER

WHY THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN ROCKIES MUST NOT BECOME AN EXXON MOBILE CONDUIT TO THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS - WITH RICK BASS

Terry Tempest Williams: “David Duncan and Rick Bass have raised their pens as swords and taken on the megalords with their megaloads associated with the tar sands fantasy, a nightmare too close, too real for comfort. May we not only sit still and read this landmark book but rise up in outrage and indignation. This act of writing is an act of civil resistance through brilliant storytelling.” 

 

FILMS

NATURE: RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE COLUMBIA SNAKE RIVER SALMON
- A 2011 PBS DOCUMENTARY

The parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish’s life cycle.

 

DAMNATION

AN AWARD-WINNING 2014 DOCUMENTARY BY TRAVIS RUMMEL AND BEN KNIGHT

This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.

 

TROUT GRASS

A FILM BY ED GEORGE AND ANDY ROYER

Winner of Best Feature Film or Best Short Documentary at four film festivals; cited by Chicago Tribune as “One of the Six Best” videos of 2005.

Trout Grass is a story of passion, international partnership and the discovery of place in our natural world. This unique documentary captures the 10,000-mile journey of bamboo’s transformation from a hardy species of grass to a super-conductive split-cane fly rod.