In The Walk William deBuys writes about personal loss and the power of the landscape to nurture the recovery of hope. The book consists of three interrelated essays that move from a period of strife in the author s life to a kind of limbo and eventually to a place of peace. The setting is deBuys small farm in New Mexico s Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Each morning he takes the same walk through the woods arriving as he describes in the first essay at a clarity that comes from looking at the same vantage point for years. The middle essay Geranium takes its name from a mare deBuys had to put down and whose remains become one with the forest. In the final essay deBuys reflects on drought the loss of a friend and the resurgence of land and hope. Contemplative compassionate and quietly humorous The Walk is nature writing at its finest.