"Teacher, counselor, and wilderness guide Jastrab entwines his story of personal awakening with the firsthand account of a group of men as they participate in a contemporary heroic rite of passage called the Vision Quest."         ---Library Journal

"Ritual, story, initiation, sacredness, nature, hero's journey ---these are all good words and profound realities....Joseph Jastrab gives them blood and dimension in this book that is more about ongoing discovery of one's humanity than about the reconstruction of a male's identity....Good writing and honest wisdom."                                              ---Thomas Moore

"I love not only what Joseph writes but how---there is a fertile poetry to these lines. He invite us all to enter the deep woods we have feared---of feeling, of holy unknowing, of questing in that primal space which will bring the world alive for self and vitalize it for others."                    ---Brooke Medicine Eagle

"Jastrab's eloquent and insightful work offers a healing balm to men and the women who care about them. Its lyrical narrative both deepens and expands our sense of the sacred in all things."                                           ---Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D.,
            author of Knights Without Armor
            and Gender War, Gender Peace

Joseph Jastrab was chief instructor at the North American Wilderness Survival School and is founder of the Earth Rise Foundation. He lives in New Paltz, New York.
Ron Schaumburg is a freelance writer who lives in Oradell, New Jersey.