Author Description

"AN INSPIRING CALL TO ACTION." -KIRKUS REVIEWS Literary Classics Gold Medal Winner, Environmental Issues Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner, Fiction Inspirational Living Now Evergreen Book Award Winner, Nature Conservation 100% OF AUTHOR ROYALTIES WILL BE DONATED TO THE NATURE CONSERVANCY. Redwoods thrive for centuries in the coastal regions of America's Pacific Northwest. A monarch butterfly journeys from Northern meadows to the mountains of Central Mexico. The mother of four wolf pups leads her family through the Arctic's stark terrain and bitter storms. One of the greatest seagoing mammals roams the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of Alaska to the Galapagos. These voices speak to us of the meaning we seek in our lives. Jennifer Huffman, Independent Publisher Review: "Finally, a book about nature written by nature. In a collection of four short stories, author Jay Amberg chronicles the lives and journeys of four life forms by giving them each a voice. In their own words, an Arctic wolf, a migrating monarch butterfly, a lone sperm whale, and a Pacific Northwest redwood tree paint a picture of how they interact with their environment, emphasizing their daily fight to survive. "As the book unfolds, a reoccurring life cycle theme emerges. Throughout each story, the reader's frame of mind is transformed to that of the organism because Amberg presents the struggle to survive from its point of view. To complicate the fight for survival, each story also contains ominous hints about the presence of man and evidence of his impact on the organism's life and habitat. "The first story revolves around the life cycle of a redwood grove. The redwood describes what physical processes affect the growth of the stand and how it thrives in a stable cycle of birth, growth, death, decay, and rebirth. But it is troubling when the redwood describes how, over time, the air has become drier, temperatures have increased, the river floods more frequently, t