MICHAEL SHAPIRO is the author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers’ Tales). He lives in Sebastopol, California, and volunteers for a group that takes disabled people on sea-kayaking and river-rafting adventures.

Hope Dies Last

by Michael Shapiro, November 2006 (Issue 371)

Against The Current

by Michael Shapiro, June 2006 (Issue 366)