Fox and the Knife-Thrower," Harper's, January 1977 "Do Writers Stay Home," New York Times Book Review, May 22, 1977 "Without American Express," New York Times Book Review, June 4, 1978 "Into Eritrea: Africa's Red Sea War," Harper's, July 1978 "Unsilent Spring," The Nation, May 26, 1979 "Gabriel, Who Wanted to Know," The New England Review, Summer 1979 "Tugs," Harper's, December 1979 "Johnny Appleseed," American Heritage, December–January 1979 "Being Between Books," New York Times Book Review, October 28, 1979 "December Song," The Nation, December 6, 1980 "America Was Promises (Still)," The Nation, February 21, 1981 "Making of a Writer," New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1981 "Gods, Masks, and Horses," Vanity Fair, July 1983 "Anchorage," Vanity Fair, October 1983 "Up the Black to Chalkyitsik," House and Garden, June 1984 "Hail the Anhinga," The Nation, June 9, 1984 "Memories of Circuses Past," The Nation, March 9, 1985 "In Okefenokee," National Geographic Traveler, Spring 1985 "Nectar Feeding," The Nation, July 20, 1985 "In Praise of John Muir," Antaeus, Autumn 1986 "Three Trains Across Canada," Travel & Leisure, March 1987 "Up with Spring," The Nation, June 6, 1987 "Treasured Places," Life, July 1987 "Summer Skunks," The Nation, August 29, 1987 "Christmases Past," The Nation, December 26, 1987 "Heaven and Nature," Harper's, March 1988 "Arabia Felix," Interview magazine, May 1988 "The Indispensable Thoreau," American Heritage, July 1988 "Learning to Eat Soup," Antaeus, Autumn 1988 "The Hunger in Manhattan Life," Harper's, June 1989 "Jubilant Spring," The Nation, June 19, 1989 "A World Worth Saving," Life, October 1989 "O Wyoming," Outside, October 1989 "Tolstoyan Tide," The Nation, May 14, 1990 "Shh, Our Writers Are Sleeping," Esquire, July 1990 "On Getting One's Footing" (reprinted from "Anxious Dreams", Manchester Guardian, January 20), Harper's, August 1990 "Roadless Regions," Literary Outtakes, September 1990 "Passing Views," Harper's, January 1991 "Good Trips, Bad Trips," Outside, April 1991 "The Best Idea," Life, May 1991 "Spring Medley," The Nation, June 10, 1991 "Holy Fools," The Nation, September 16, 1991 "Everybody Comes to Belize," Outside, February 1992 "Meat for the Old Man," Outside, May 1992 "Christmas Observed," New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1992 "To the Point," Harper's, March 1993 "Skin and Bones," The Nation, May 3, 1993 "The Unknown Thoreau," The Nation, June 7, 1993 "Nature's Seesaw," Vermont, May 1994 (also in Land's End Catalogue, September 1993) "All This Good World," Manoa, June 1994 "Strange Perfume," Esquire, June 1994 "The View from 61," New