Waking up in the Wilderness is honored to be included in the Inspired by Yellowstone Artist Series.
Visit Yellowstone . . .
through the pages of a book.
Encounter | Experience | Explore
Waking up in the Wilderness invites you to embark on a four-decade journey into Yellowstone National Park. Travel with Natalie Ogbourne as she navigates the fine line between isolation and solitude—on the road, on the trail, and in life. Encounter the park’s inseparable dangers and delights. Explore Yellowstone through each of its seasons—hiking, canoeing, fly fishing, snowmobiling, and camping along the way. Experience the transformational power of its wilderness.
It’s said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or the rotation of a tire. Or the turn of a page.
Let’s go to Yellowstone!
Waking Up in the Wilderness is honored to be part of the Inspired by Yellowstone Artist Series.
“Natalie Ogbourne is a long-standing citizen of the Yellowstone Nation, and in Waking Up in the Wilderness she chronicles the richly rewarding arts, skills, and wisdoms she has earned in many seasons of watching “Yellowstone being Yellowstone.” Her enthusiastic and affable tales of exploring the park display not only good sense but an admirable humility in the face of Yellowstone’s wonders.”
~ Paul Schullery, author of Mountain Time, Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness, and The Bear Doesn’t Know: Life and Wonder in Bear Country.
“Natalie Ogbourne’s Waking Up in the Wilderness takes us on adventures where the epic wild majesty of Yellowstone National Park is as much a character as Ogbourne and her family. This account of Ogbourne’s repeated pilgrimages to Yellowstone illuminates a place where the wilderness and civilization interact in a very intimate and strange way, like the dynamic landscape in Yellowstone itself. Through this lens of repeated forays into this special place, Ogbourne shows readers the mercies of nature, love, passing time, and family.”—
~ Nicholas Trandahl, award-winning poet, author of Mountain Song and Purgatory
Available online, in Yellowstone, and at these Iowa Booksellers
Availiable at these Iowa Book Sellers: Altoona: Hidden Treasures Ames: Dog-EaredBooks Des Moines: Barnes & Noble, Beaverdale Books, Choices Grimes: The Wandering Raccoon Grinnell: Stepping Stones Knoxville: Coffee Connection Marshalltown: Stepping Stones Newton: Choices Oskaloosa: Book Vault, Stepping Stones Pella: Iris Coffee
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
~ John Muir
goodness and glory: a glimpse into Yellowstone
