Meet the Author - Steve Betchkal

Saturday, September 27, 11am-2pm Meet author Steve Betchkal. He'll have books for sale and signing.
The Books:
Walk the Walk, Camp the Camp, Bird the Bird (The Fantastic Quest to Meet Every Species of Bird on Planet Earth, Spend a Year Outside My Comfortable Little House, & Follow the Trail to Its Logical Conclusion)
Zion. Big Bend. Yellowstone. Yosemite. Denali. The Pribilofs. The Osa. Galápagos. Do you lust after the best of wild and natural places? Do you mind sharing with Two and a Half Men, 8-inch poisonous centipedes, & Raccoons?
To know nature, one must bird the bird. To know wild places, one must walk the walk. To camp the camp, one must sleep around (no tent required).
Pull up a comfortable seat and hike a mile or two in Steve Betchkal's size elevens, as he tracks four soulful, sensual, & seductive decades of beloved destinations.
The Blessing of the Beasts or 101 Apologus Nights
Eleven-year-old Cara has to know. She is becoming a thinking, feeling human being, so she must learn how the world works, and why. And that kind of knowledge doesn't come from playing video games or watching TV. Nor does it come from human beings.
In this modern take on The Arabian Nights, Cara is Scheherazade, and Cara's summer nights serve as the setting for a collection of twenty-seven diverse spirito-environmental fables that entertain and teach.

Cat Tales (Life Two)
Can cats really talk?
Perhaps the better question is...can people really listen?
The love of a man and his cat is a beautiful thing, especially if the cat speaks its mind and there is some disagreement upon who is the pet.
This amusing assortment of daily conversations between a human and a feline is based upon impromptu tales told to my two young children and later collected in two volumes. It's perfect for reading aloud to a child...or perhaps a cat? Oh! And the art has its own story!
Make Birds Not War: Step by Step Instructions for Saving the World a Birder at a Time is Bill Bryson meets Edward Abbey meets one of Wisconsin's own naturalists. A collection of 22 poems, 19 essays, and three jokes on birding, philosophy, politics, life, fun, all that's worth living for, and everything else.
What's it like to migrate north with the birds? When is First Birding Light? Where do you land on The Saint Scale? How do birds contribute to the gross domestic product? How many birds can the average American name in a minute? How does one make birds? What's the scoop on bird feet? These and other terribly urgent questions are wrestled to earth by Steve Betchkal, lifelong artist/scientist/philosopher & author of All of This & Robins Too: A Guide to the 50 or So Best Places to Find Birds in Wisconsin
Birds are totally greeaaaat!!!
About the Author:
Steve Betchkal is the author of eight books including his latest; 101 Apologus Nights. In his 38 years as a journalist he's produced 11,000 stories, while winning 6 Emmys, and an Edward R. Murrow award for news writing.
Steve walks the walk, camps the camp, and birds the bird. He's not afraid of spiders, bees, or bats, but is mortified by Republican politics. He believes that human-caused climate crisis is a serious threat to life on Earth and wonders aloud why we aren't working harder to do something about it.
In 2017 he worked for Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic in the Galápagos Islands. In 2019 he worked as a tour guide for Crystal Cave in Spring Valley.