Writing

BOOKS

The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna, St. Martin’s Press, 2013. (Co-author with Suzanne Chisholm.)

Chasing the Glory: Travels Across America, Macmillan, Inc., 1988. Paperback, 1989

South Light: A Journey to the Last Continent, Macmillan, Inc., 1986. Paperback, 1987. Published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury. New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1986.

The Boys Behind the Bombs, Little, Brown, Inc., 1983.

Last Stand at Rosebud Creek: Coal, Power and People, E.P. Dutton, 1980

Chapters in books for National Geographic: Into the Unknown (Scott and Amundsen); The Soviet Union Today (Leningrad and the Baltic States); The Curious Naturalist (Woodlands) and intro to Discover America

SAMPLE OF MAJOR MAGAZINE ARTICLES

“Beyond Oil: Powering the Future,” National Geographic, August, 2005 (cover story)

“Whale of a Tale,” Smithsonian, November, 2004

“A Walk Across England,” Smithsonian, October, 2003 (Cover story)

“Islands of the Pacific,” National Geographic, March, 2003 (Story and legends)

“The First Americans,” National Geographic, December, 2000 (Story and legends)

“Australia: A Harsh Awakening,” National Geographic, July 2000 (Story and legends)

“Rodeos,” National Geographic, September, 1999 (Story and legends)

“Antarctic Dry Valleys,” National Geographic, October, 1998 (Story and legends)

“Human Migration,” National Geographic, October, 1998

“Living with Natural Hazards,” National Geographic, July, 1998

“The Untamed Yukon River,” National Geographic, July, 1998 (Story and legends)

“A Dream called Nunavut,” National Geographic, September, 1997, (Story and legends)

“The Essential Element of Fire,” National Geographic, September, 1996 (Story and legends)

“Emerging Mexico,” National Geographic, August, 1996 (Main text for entire special issue)

“California Desert Lands,” National Geographic, May, 1996 (Story and legends)

“Diminishing Returns: Exploiting the Ocean’s Bounty,” National Geographic, November, 1995 (Cover story)

“The Floods That Carved the West,” Smithsonian, April, 1995 (Lead story)

“Canada’s Highway of Steel,” National Geographic, December, 1994

“Powwow,” National Geographic, June, 1994 (Cover story)

“Water,” National Geographic Special Issue, November, 1993. Five of eight major stories.

“Reclaiming a Lost Antarctic Base,” National Geographic, March, 1993

“What words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers”, Smithsonian, February, 1993

“The Hard Ride of Route 93,” National Geographic, December, 1992 (Finalist, National Magazine Awards, 1993)