The Lake’s Apprentice

A hybrid-form text in the creative writing genre, designed for general readers interested in nature, this book is the result of the author’s work creating a folklore for Yalgorup, a coastal wetland national park in Australia. The book’s first half is creative nonfiction, a combination of reflective essays in the style of science and nature writing and a nature diary illustrated with small color photographs of Yalgorup. The second half is a book of poetry. While the result is an extended mediation on place, the author is trained as a journalist, and the book combines information on the national park, reflections on writers such as Barry Lopez, first-hand observations, and material learned from Noongar people, the native inhabitants of the area. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)