Brian Walters is a rare poet --tuned to history as few have been for a generation or more. He is alert for those critical moments that reveal a place, time and a human heart with energy and clarity, and gives them to us. Bitter, terrible, sweet, whatever they are, for they are our heritage and what has formed us over the centuries. Human bravery, savagery, thoughtfulness, and passion all find a place in his work. There is even room for hope and love in spite of everything. --Howard McCord

In this compact, essential book, a veteran poet and inveterate outdoorsman explores the hidden histories of place, the psychology of aloneness, and the human condition in inhospitable spaces. The author of the celebrated novella The Man Who Walked to The Moon(see link below), McCord brings to life three of his desert walks in New Mexico and Iceland, and one particularly meaningful rock climbing ascent in real stories told by a natural raconteur. For its spirit of adventure, deep intelligence, well-crafted prose and generous wisdom, Walking to Extremes will be treasured both by the armchair adventurer and the most ardent backpacker. With one illustration and five photographs.

The Man Who Walked to The Moon evokes the twin wildernesses of amorality -- the natural and the human. William Gasper is a lone walker, a man apart, who chooses the Steen mountains, and in particular one mountain named The Moon, as his forbidding refuge. As he relates with knife-edge precision what happens on The Moon, and what brought him to this place, menace and dread gradually take hold, creating an exacting portrait of a psyche as old as myth and as present as any politician's worst nightmare. Winner of the Dasher Award from the College English Association of Ohio