Absence and Light
Meditations from the Klamath Marshes

This text is a thought-provoking commentary on contemporary culture presented in a series of meditations on the Klamath marshes, an area on the Oregon/California border rich in both natural and human history.

This is nature writing at its most profound and moving, writing that in examining and defining the world of nature helps us to understand the very complicated and contradictory realities of being human. Campbell's luminous descriptions and mystical insights will long linger in the reader's memory.