Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben has built a career in environmental writing, journalism, education, and organizing, connecting large ecological questions with everyday places and communities. Wandering Home is a personal account of his walk from Vermont's Champlain Valley toward his former home in New York's Adirondacks. Originally published in 2005 as part of the Crown Journeys series, the book follows trails, forests, farms, and conversations with writers, growers, students, and environmental advocates. Rather than presenting the route as a solitary endurance feat, McKibben uses each encounter to consider conservation, local economies, agriculture, and the balance between cultivated and wild land. His wider catalogue includes The End of Nature, Enough, Deep Economy, and numerous essays for national magazines. He has also served as a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Wandering Home places the landscape that shaped McKibben's environmental commitments at the center of the narrative, joining travel writing, memoir, and reflection on responsible community life.