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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doug Peacock is a legend in wilderness circles. A friend of Edward Abbey, Peacock was a Vietnam vet so traumatized by the war that he escaped into the wilderness once he returned to America. He says grizzlies saved his life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Toso was walking home from a swimming pool when he was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. It nearly killed him, but he had a spiritual awakening and found a new appreciation for living in the moment and respecting the Wild.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Essayist Beverly Lapp explains what "The Star Spangled Banner" means to her as a Mennonite.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lorrie Moore reviews Alice Munroe's "Carried Away."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France.  He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.

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