Author of the best-selling Moby-Duck, Donovan Hohn has been hailed by the New York Times as an “adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer.” Now, he returns with THE INNER COAST [W. W. Norton & Company; June 2, 2020; $16.95 paperback original], a collection of essays, written in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, that explore the borderlands between the natural and the human.

Hohn’s prize-winning essays have been published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s. THE INNER COAST draws together ten of his best into a fascinating meditation on our changing place in the natural world, featuring the author’s physical, historical, and emotional journeys through the American landscape.

By turns contemplative and comic, adventurous and metaphysical, Hohn writes about the appeal of old tools, the dance between ecology and engineering, the lost art of ice canoeing, and Americans’ complicated love/hate relationship with Thoreau. THE INNER COAST marks the return of one of our finest young writers and a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called “the geography of the imagination.”

Donovan Hohn, a former editor at GQ and Harper’s, is the author of Moby-Duck and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, a Knight-Wallace Fellowship, and a Whiting Writer’s Award. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.