Ken Ilgunas

(This will be updated with links and new events as they come.) Thur. Oct. 4, 7 p.m. – New England College (Henniker, NH) in the Great Room...

In 2013, I self-published a 15,000-word tiny book called The McCandless Mecca. It's about my hike to the magic bus of Alaska's Stampede...

Listening The Wilderness – Jon Favreau the former speechwriter for President Obama, gives a history of the Democratic party, a diagnosis...

Yesterday, my Op-Ed, about a ridiculous Idaho trespass law, published in High Country News. Here’s the text: Woody Guthrie’s most famous...

In May of this year, I had the honor of co-presenting with one of my environmental heroes, Bill McKibben, the author/editor of seventeen...

Some book-review love for This Land Is Our Land from Adventure Journal: “My dad, a law-abiding rural county detective, always surprised...

Listening Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? Seasons 1 & 2 – This podcast is full of good, practical relationship advice. (One helpful...

If I can find the self-discipline, I’m hoping this will become a regular blog series that’ll give me a place to record, reflect on, and...

Today I’m featured in an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible. The subject is the right to roam in the U.K., with special focus on the...

In many parts of North America, the cost of camping has become outrageously expensive. I got a fresh reminder of this on a recent...

In my last post, for the fifth anniversary of my first book, I did a little reflecting on the sales history of Walden on Wheels. This got...

May 15, 2018 marked the five-year anniversary of the publication of Walden on Wheels. While my career as a writer has had its ups and...

My book release for This Land Is Our Land has been quiet. I’d gotten positive reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, the Greensboro News and...

I have a piece in Backpacker this month on the “Great Plains Trail.” In March 2015, I walked the trail with founder Steve Myers, for 100...

I’d love it if someone, whose tastes are similar to my own, would give me a syllabus of decent books to read, to save me the trouble of...

It’s publication day! This Land Is Our Land is available at your local bookstore. Here’s one last pitch (of several last pitches) to buy...

[I was recently interviewed by a newspaper in Lithuania. Here’s the transcript of the interview.] What is the purpose of your visit to...

It's a great book. Some thoughts... 1. Grant’s story is pretty close to a real rags-to-riches story, and watching his climb is such fun....

The story of the Pentagon Papers is important and timely, but, as with many of Spielberg’s films of the last twenty years, I sense that...

This is a fun, delightful read about a hermit who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years. The hermit, Christopher Knight, stole food,...