"Steven J. Meyers explores the beauty and personal significance of a small stream in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in this seamlessly written extended essay. With a precision that can only come from extraordinary sensitivity and careful exploration over a long period of time, he shares with us, through eloquent prose and subtle photographs, the details and nuances of an environment. In the tradition of the great nature narrative, the author's discoveries along Lime Creek echo the universal paradoxesof man's relationship to the natural world. His inner experience of the healing power of solitude and natural beauty is interwoven with a philosopher's transcendent vision. An intimate evocation of place, Lime Creek Odyssey belongs on the nature lover's bookshelf next to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Arctic Dreams, and The Solace of Open Spaces. A stunning verbal and visual portrait of a place--one man's intimate discovery of the meaning of home"--Provided by publisher.