For most of her life, Gretel Ehrlich has been on the move, and her adventures have led her east and west and back again. Aspects of these adventures are revealed in autobiographical details woven throughout her accounts of life in the American West, travels in the Far East, and many trips to the Arctic. Whether she is writing poetry, fiction, or nonfiction about Wyoming, China, or Greenland, her keen observations and descriptions of the natural world evoke a strong sense of place. According to her friend, writer Pico Iyer, "the connection between two different kinds of nature, within us and without, has always been her subject, and the way the seasons pass inside us and we find in the world a mirroring, or a guide, for our own inner geography." She has been described as a nature writer, a Western writer, and a travel writer, and she often...