Georgia naturalist Janisse Ray shares human stories from wild places

Janisse Ray’s 1999 memoir “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood” introduced many people to the beauty of South Georgia. The award-winning Georgia nature writer has a new book out now with stories that take her further afield.

The essay collection “Wild Spectacle” shares adventures she’s had from Costa Rica to Alaska. She said traveling gives her perspective on her home, a farm near Savannah.

“It’s always different,” she says of how new places inform her views. “That’s why I love traveling.”