Inscribed "For Andrea and Jim, And for the once and future Glen-Bruce Berger

Inscribed "For Andrea and Jim, And for the once and future Glen-Bruce Berger 5/17/00". Bruce Nicolas Berger (born August 21, 1938) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and pianist who lives in both Aspen, Colorado and Baja, Mexico. He is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture, usually in desert settings. Berger's book The Telling Distance: Conversations with the American Desert won the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Signed "Bruce Berger" on title page. On October 7, 1962, Bruce Berger and

Signed "Bruce Berger" on title page. On October 7, 1962, Bruce Berger and three friends embarked on what may have been the last trip taken through the Colorado River's Glen Canyon before the floodgates were closed at Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell began to fill. After thirty years, one can grieve for what was lost and then, like Berger, take another look around. Bruce Nicolas Berger (born August 21, 1938) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and pianist who lives in both Aspen, Colorado and Baja, Mexico. He is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture, usually in desert settings. Berger's book The Telling Distance: Conversations with the American Desert won the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.