Robert Kimber is a free-lance writer and translator with a special interest in outdoor and environmental subjects. Over the last fifty years, he has hiked, canoed, and snowshoed extensively in Maine, Labrador, and northern Quebec. His work has appeared in Audubon, Country Journal, Down East, Field & Stream, Harrowsmith, Horticulture, Northern Woodlands, Yankee, and other magazines. His books include A Conoeist's Sketchbook, Upcountry: Reflections on a Rural Life, and Living Wild and Domestic: The Education of a Hunter-Gardener. Kimber and his wife, Rita, live on an old farm in Temple, Maine, and have collaborated on over forty book translations from the German.