Gila Descending: A Southwestern Journey
...a delightful book. No reader could ask for a finer river to read about than the Gila, or a better companion to explore it with than M.H. Salmon. May the Government (ugh!) and God (we hope) long preserve them both.   --Edward AbbeyGila Descendingis a joy to read. M.H. Salmon and his fiesty animal co-pilots have enough chutzpah to keep us laughing; enough literary audacity to delight and educate; and enough love of land, water and wilderness to stir the most hardened conscience.   --John NicholsAs you join the author -- and his coyote hound and tomcat -- on a float trip down the Gila, you will find a unique companion: a hunter with an informed environmental conscience; a fisherman with the sense to know that catfish are as good as trout; a wry observer whose prose owes more to local speech and the elegant essays of Also Leopold than to the high-tech fodder in the yuppie monthlies. Above all, he is a passionate and original defender of wilderness with its hair on. --Steve Bodio, Bodio's Review,Gray's Sporting Journal