Way leads onto way, and book leads onto book. While researching my book Blue Latitudes, about the voyages of Captain Cook, I became fascinated by first contact between alien cultures. In the late 18th century, Cook and his sailors reached dozens of Pacific lands never before seen or even imagined by Europeans. What did they make of the people and places they encountered, and what did Aborigines, Maoris and Hawaiians make of them? This moment of mutual discovery is an experience we simply can't have today, no matter how far we travel.
Another in Proulx's series of Wyoming tales, this collection of short stories alternates between raw and hardscrabble, between the Devil's viewpoint and veterans returning from Iraq. The is no end to the spiral downward that Proulx can offer.
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