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Best known for his sweeping international and politics fiction narratives - including The Female Who Lost Her Heart and soul, which gained the Dayton Peacefulness Prize and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - Bob Shacochis began his writing job as a pioneering journalist and adding editor for Outdoor Newspaper and Harper's. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the most effective of Shacochis's culture and travel essays in a single livewire collection that spans his global journeys and his life passions; from browsing, to his obsession with the South American dorado, to the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique. Within the titular article "Kingdoms", the longest work in the collection, Shacochis endeavors to Nepal along with his friend, the professional photographer Thomas Laird, who was the first foreigner to reside in Nepal's kingdom of Mustang as the forbidden Shangri-la ready to open its edges to trekkers and trade. When both men return a decade after Laird first resided there, Shacochis observes in brilliantly evocative prose both current ethnic and political landscaping of the united states and the changes that his good friend has to reconcile with. Replete with Shacochis's signature swagger, humor, and crystalline knowledge, Kingdoms in the Air is a majestic and essential collection in one of our most significant writers.
