Temple Stream [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

"Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. ... The book abounds with fascinating information.... There is plenty of such natural lore here, but also something deeper and broader. ... It's about being a stranger and becoming a friend, about settling in and reaching out."--The Hartford Courant
"Searching for the source of a river (the maps are wrong), this PLAYBOY contributor canoes and hikes through his rural town. Along the way he meets back-to-the-land types and the Maine natives who resent them. You'll be homseick for a place you've never visited." -- Jessica Riddle, Playboy
"His Book is a quiet marvel in a genre that's tough to master without reaching for the poetic and tripping into the sentimental....Roorbach has won the Flannery O'Connor Award for his fiction. And his nonfiction is every bit as lyrical." Anthony Brandt, National Geographic

Bill Roorbach, recent winner of an O. Henry Award, is the author of Big Bend, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award; a novel, The Smallest Color; and a memoir, Summers with Juliet, among other books of nonfiction. His short work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine, and been widely anthologized. Currently, he holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross. Temple Stream flows from an article that first appeared in Harper's Magazine.