Beaverland: Webinar

30th Anniversary River Tour Series

Join us for the second 30th Anniversary Virtual River Tour!

As we welcome author Leila Philip to virtually present her book, Beaverland How One Weird Rodent Made America

Virtual: Thursday, February 19th, from 5-6:30PM.

Hear from the author, Leila Philip with a presentation, followed by a short Q&A. Dive deeper into the world of the North American Beaver and its role on the landscape. From near extinction to now, the ecological history and story of how the Beaver has shaped history, culture, and our environment.

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Lyrically written, meticulously observed, and exhaustively researched, BEAVERLAND is going to break your heart—and then heal it with compassion, beauty, and wonder.
— Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus

In Beaverland, Leila Philip takes us on a fascinating tour of the beaver’s effect on human history, and how, after its near extinction, we need to bring this rodent back for the sake of our ecosystems.
— Frans de Waal, author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Beaverland is poignant, impeccably researched, and artfully put together with an eye toward the beaver’s role in the anthropogenic disaster of our changing climate and damaged ecosystems.
— Gretel Ehrlich, author of Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is

Leila Philip

Leila Philip is the author of award-winning books of nonfiction that chronicle diverse, personal journeys. In The Road Through Miyama, Leila, already fluent in Japanese and a potter, traveled to Japan to apprentice to a master potter in southern Kyushu. A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family, took her much closer to home (literally), and weaves the history of the Hudson valley farm where she spent her childhood with a revealing account of what’s involved in cultivating orchards. Both books received awards, and glowing national reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow, Leila has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She works across genres, publishing poetry, essays and theatrical script and is currently at work on a documentary film. She was a contributing columnist at the Boston Globe and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross where she is a professor in the English Department.

See https://www.leilaphilip.com/beaverland to hear from the author!