Kurt Caswell: 3 books
Getting to Grey Owl
Journeys on Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: A Man's Journey across Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell’s travels as he buys a rug...
Laika's Window
The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight...
In the Sun's House
My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed...