Apparently it's prize week around here. On Monday night I dragged myself to the door, sopping wet from a long week up in the rainforests of British Columbia, and found a bounty awaiting me: Korean editions!
Somewhere out there a translator has been burning the midnight oil to turn out a Korean-language edition of Last Flight. (Translator: Whoever you are, give me a shout. I have a signed edition waiting for you.) Looks fabulous. If you're in the market for a copy, contact Sallim Books, they can hook you up.
In other exciting news: Last Flight has been named the winner of the 2009 Gene E. & Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism, which recognizes the best literary depiction of an individual whose efforts resulted in a significant improvement of their local community. It's an especially neat award because it honors the community activist--the Belize Zoo's Sharon Matola--as much as the book.
Finally: I just learned that the book has been named a finalist for the 2009 Washington State Book Award, an honor given to The Measure of a Mountain a decade ago. Good times. Now I gotta go dry out my gear.
Congrats, Bruce. Just read Measure of a Mountain for the second time last month — and loved it just as much this time around. (It's inspired me, an outdoor writer myself, to pursue a similar book on a mountain I got to know much the way you did Rainier . . .) Will be checking out Last Flight soon for sure as well . . .
Posted by: Jon Bell | September 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Would you be so kind as to make a post about the content of your presentation "Tweeting Truth to Power" at Edmonds CC in early October?
Thanks,
ME
Posted by: ME | October 14, 2009 at 02:18 PM
Hey Bruce,
I just read an ADHD article in Nov 09 Bicycling. Well done! That was you and not some other Bruce?
Congrats on your success in life and for the environment!
--fellow 1984 Snohomish grad P. Linert
Posted by: Patricia Linert | October 19, 2009 at 05:21 PM
That's me. Thanks, Patricia! That was a fascinating article to research and report. I ended up spending a number of months following Adam's progress in college, both on the bike and in class. I'll post a link to it on my page later tonight...
Posted by: Bruce | October 19, 2009 at 07:38 PM