Andrew Schelling was born 14 January 1953 and raised in Thoreau territory, west of Boston. He spent the 1970s and 1980s in Northern California. In college, he studied ecology of mind with Gregory Bateson and poetry with Norman O. Brown. Schelling took up the study of the Sanskrit language, wrote poetry among urban poets of the Bay Area, and developed wilderness skills in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range mountains. In 1990 he moved to Colorado to teach poetry and Sanskrit at The Naropa Institute (now University). Schelling works on land-use issues in the American West and explorations of wild lands and wild life. Among his twenty-odd titles are From the Arapaho Songbook, The Facts at Dog Tank Spring, and eight books of translation from India’s old lyrics. Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture is an ideogram of linguistics, folklore, old-time stories, poets, and cattle rustling in California. The book has become something of an underground classic, used by readers as history and field guide to bioregional thought. Schelling lives in the “middle mountains” between the high plains and Colorado’s Indian Peaks.