Canyon Mountain Cloud: absence and longing in American Parks: by Tyra A. Olstad, Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 2021, x + 266 pp., US$29.95 (paper), ISBN: 978-0-8707-1102-2.

Olstad's book goes a long way to fill that gap for both seasoned and up-and-coming cultural geographers. How many times have cultural geographers read a piece of travel writing, a memoir, or a personal essay and wondered, "why was this excellent geography I not i written by a geographer?" I appreciated Olstad's strong bend toward memoir, thick and detailed description of land and place, and personal exploration of self in place. [Extracted from the article]