Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations

at the Tasmanian College of the Arts

great plumes of water rose up towards the sky as the shrapnel arched towards us

including the largest population of free-ranging European bison

In Women on Nature

Ash Before Oak Climate Breakdown Lopez also probes the longAsh before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrators interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrators subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him. Written in prose that is as precise as it is beautiful,