"I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers." So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heacox's coming-of-middle age memoir written in the tradition of Edward Abbey, John McPhee, and Henry David Thoreau, with a voice at times tender, irate, funny, and deeply huimane. Born in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains and raised in Spokane, Washington, Heacox moves to Alaska as a young park ranger and discovers a land and sea newly reborn from beneath a retreating glacier. In this tale of friendship, risk, and hope we find a story of coming home and learning to live gracefully amont the deep blue glaciers of Alaska. Kim Heacox is the award-winning author of several non-fiction books. His feature articles have appeared in Audubon, Wilderness, Islands, Orion, and National Geographic Traveler.