description: The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. 
title: About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
titlecomplete: About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
genres: Biography, Essays, Nature, Environment, Autobiography, Philosophy, Writing, Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir
ratings_count: 977
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Finalist)
publisher: Knopf