While cave diving, kayaking, shark diving and mountain biking are recognized as adventure sports, the true adventure for author Simone Lipscomb is the inward journey prompted by her participation in them. Through excursions to underwater caves, coral reefs, mountains, deserts and oceans, she finds herself amid some of nature's most beloved and feared creatures--sharks, rattlesnakes, manatees, sea turtles and dolphins. Lipscomb pokes fun at her short-comings and writes from her heart as she journeys deep into the wilds of nature and her own instinctual self.

Simone Lipscomb's passion for adventure and travel come through in her new book. A mixture of Indiana-Anna Jones and Henrietta Thoreau, Lipscomb's got game! While enthusiastic, her adventure-nature writing is also sensitive and insightful with a sense of wonder and awe that is both confident and professional.

Amidst sharks, monkeys, rattlesnakes and amniotic waters, Lipscomb finds herself at home and in reverence, in love, with the natural world. What a gift to those of us too timid to stray into the path of harms way or rough terrain. Simone Lipscomb goes there for us, as a kind of scout, and reports back in enticing prose.

  Thomas Rain Crowe, author of Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods