Granite, Fire, and Fog: The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia, by naturalist and author Tom Wessels, presents an inspiring overview of Maine’s Mount Desert Island by a man who is uniquely qualified to write it.

TOM WESSELS is a professor of ecology and the founding director of the master’s degree program in conservation biology at Antioch University New England. He is the author of Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape, The Myth of Progress:Toward a Sustainable Future, and The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America’s Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite.