Steven Foster

In 1996 a group of nine youth, four trainees, and two wilderness rites of passage guides, Steven Foster and Meredith Little, gathered in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada to complete a modern day wilderness passage rite, an initiation from childhood to adulthood.

Companion to the documentary film, the youth handbook is required reading for any young person planning to or thinking about participating in this traditional coming of age ceremony in the wilderness.

The most complete work on the medicinal plants of western North America, this guide offers the best information in the world on the nearly 500 species covered, much of it available for the first time. More than 530 color photographs illustrate the plants. An index to medical topics helps locate information on specific ailments.