content: Rick Bass is a phenomenal nature writer, and though I have not yet read all of his books, The Hermit's Story is my favorite out of the others I have read. Rick Bass writes about simple life, and the influence of the wilds on people who still live with the land, instead of just on it.In The Hermit's Story, Bass reveals another ten stories that cut straight to the heart, and bring the reader into a new world, one where people love and care for the land they live on, and where the outside world of today's developed society is strange and unforgiving.As an avid reader of nature writing, and an outdoors lover, I am enticed by Bass's writing, and it inspires me to write, and to spend time in the wild. I could not ask for more out of a book.