There is a Fire in Water

Text by David James Duncan
Drawing by Frank Boyden

A wild chinook salmon, seven hundred miles
from the Pacific, turns her ocean-built body into a shovel
and digs, in the unforgiving bone of this continent,
a home for offspring she will not live long enough to see. . . .

David James Duncan is a novelist and nonfiction writer who often speaks and writes about conservationist themes and our fragile, imperiled natural world. Duncan's first book, The River Why ("my love novel to rivers") was the first fiction ever published by the Sierra Club (1983). He is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Literary Excellence and the American Library Association Best Books Award. His recent book, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark (Sierra Club Books), was a National Book Awards finalist in 2001. Duncan has also written on wilderness, the writing life, fly fishing, and other topics for various national magazines, among them Harper's, Orion, Outside, and Sierra. David James Duncan grew up in Oregon, where he lived for some forty years before moving with his family to Western Montana.

Artist Frank Boyden is a widely respected printmaker and ceramic artist, known throughout the Northwest for his sensitive drawings of nature themes, particularly birds and fish. Boyden maintains a studio and lives on the forested Oregon coast. He and Jane Boyden are the founders of Sitka Center for Art and Ecology near Otis, Oregon.

Specifications

• Edition of 110 press-numbered copies
• Signed by the author and the artist
• 11 x 18.5 inches
• Printed on Kitikata Green handmade paper
• Designed and printed by Sandy Tilcock
• Publication Date: September 2001

Out of print