Essays on various aspects of South Africa, by Newsweek's former Johannesburg bureau. Manning was expelled from the country in 1986 as a result of his hard-hitting reports on that volatile society.

In Grassland, journalist and nature writer Richard Manning takes a critical look at the largest and most misunderstood biome in our country, the grasslands of the American West and Midwest, which encompass a full 40 percent of the land. Manning traces the expansion of America and explains how, through farming and industry, we have habitually imposed our romantic ideals onto the land with little interest in understanding and learning from that land....