Besides the offerings of Lost Borders Press, we also make available other materials that support the work and practice of the wilderness vision fast and engagement with the natural world.  We've arranged our catalog into categories that we hope you find useful.
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There are 23 items in our catalog.
Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness - $13.00
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
This seminal work is movingly rendered and for those who long for renewal and personal transformation. It is a celebration of life and a marvelous testament to the ability of all people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. .... read more of the book description.
Bound for the Craigs of Ithaka - $24.95
Steven Foster
At the end of his life, Steven Foster indulges his love of Homer's Odyssey and writes "a romance for men going home," based on the life experiences of 65 years, as a professor,of literature, a wilderness initiatory midwife, a field .... read more of the book description.
Dying for Beginners - $15.95
Patrick Clary
Patrick Clary, his compassion combined with fierce attention, sees the dying and schools his own center to make each beginner's journey into death as gentle as may be.  Quaker, Buddhist, Vision Quester, .... read more of the book description.
Earth Dreams: Finding Light in Shadow - $14.00
Elizabeth Brensinger
From the wilds of Utah through the wilderness of self, Earth Dreams chronicles the true story of a vision quest - three days and nights spent alone in a remote Utah canyon - and the gradual unfolding of one woman's ordinary, extraordinary .... read more of the book description.
Four Shields of Human Nature - A teaching DVD - $25.00
Kim Shelton
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 .... read more of the book description.
Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature - $19.95
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
A modern classic of practical eco-therapy. Wholistically defines a very old, startlingly contemporary therapeutic paradigm for self-healing in a natural setting. The four faces of human nature, the wheel as initiatory path, the rites of the summer, .... read more of the book description.
Kit Fox Blues - $14.00
Jack Crimmins
Jack Crimmins weaves together the music of the city streets and the urgent fragile sounds of wilderness.  He takes us home to his life in the California desert, or the heart of its northern woods.  Or .... read more of the book description.
Lost Borders: A Vision Fast Handbook for Youth Coming of Age in the Wilderness - $11.00
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
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. Pulls no punches, challenging youth with the .... read more of the book description.
Lost Borders: Coming of Age in the Wilderness (58 minute DVD version) - $30.00
Kim Shelton
A contemporary masterpiece of eco-therapy. Nine youths perform a ten-day initiation ceremony, at the heart of which is a three day and night solo fast in the high desert of the Inyo Mountains in eastern California. On their return the initiates .... read more of the book description.
Marley Rides - $20.00
Jennifer Hart
Marley Rides
By Jennifer Hart & Marley’s Network

"They gave me six months to live, .... read more of the book description.

Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World - $17.95
Bill Plotkin
Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature .... read more of the book description.
Roaring of the Sacred River: The Wilderness Quest for Vision and Self Healing - $16.95
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
An important landmark in the eco-psychology of wilderness passage rites. In this companion to THE BOOK OF THE VISION QUEST, Steven Foster and Meredith Little examine, blend, and plot ancient therapeutic strategies in "field therapy". .... read more of the book description.
Slide Banjo - $8.00
Steven Foster

Slide Banjo is a small sliver of the prolific legacy of poetry that Steven left behind.  Many of these poems were written as songs for his banjo .... read more of the book description.

Solace: Wisdom of the Dying - $25.00
Camille Adair
SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying grew from Camille Adair's intimate experiences with people facing the end of their lives. As a hospice nurse, Camille has worked closely with patients, families, hospitals, cancer treatment centers and many healthcare .... read more of the book description.
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche - $15.95
Bill Plotkin
“Here is an abundantly wise and carefully crafted survival guide for the wild soul currently dozing (or dying) at the heart of your civilized life. Plotkin has wandered again and again into the nourishing darkness, and has returned with .... read more of the book description.
Stories of Men, Meaning and Prayer - $15.00
Jeffrey Duvall and James Churches
Many men feel a profound emptiness in their lives that cannot be filled with mere possessions. They are hungry for meaning. From the tragedy, folly, courage, and ecstasy of a life that is indeed the lot of every man, Jeffrey (who with his wife Mary .... read more of the book description.
Technical Guide to Threshold Safety (with Teacher's edition of A Wilderness Rite of Passage for Youth) - $11.00
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
This spiral bound, easy to use booklet is a supplement to The Roaring of the Sacred River, a book written that perforce editorially excluded the material found here. It has been updated a number of time since the publication of The .... read more of the book description.
The Box, Remembering the Gift - $260.00
Terma Company
The Box is a change agent, an interactive, self-guiding journey of initiation, of awakening and renewal. The journey contained within celebrates and promotes a reverence for Life. Places old and new, familiar and strange are visited on this .... read more of the book description.
The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live - $19.95
Scott Eberle
This new book from Lost Borders Press is the story of two worlds meeting, told on both a personal and an historical scale. The personal account recalls "the final crossing" of Steven Foster - one of the pioneers of modern-day wilderness .... read more of the book description.
The Trail to the Sacred Mountain: A Vision Fast Handbook for Adults - $11.00
Steven Foster and Meredith Little
A practical, evocative, pan-cultural guide for individuals in life crisis or transition who wish to end an old life and initiate a new -- by participating in the age-old ceremony of fasting alone in a wilderness place. At once lyrical and .... read more of the book description.
The Way of Council - $16.95
Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle
Step by step exploration of the dynamics of the ancient/modern council process. Ways of maximizing interpersonal communication in groups, from the corporation board room to the high school classroom to the elders' council in wilderness rites. .... read more of the book description.
The World is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved - $14.95
Trebbe Johnson
Through a profound personal encounter, Trebbe Johnson discovered that longing and desire are often linked to something greater than human relationships, and that following that longing, which she calls the Beloved, can lead to a more compassionate .... read more of the book description.
We Who Have Gone Before - Memory and an Old Wilderness Midwife - $19.75
Steven Foster
Nearing the end of a full life as a teacher, husband, father, eco-therapist, and vision fast guide, Steven Foster calls on the coyote-wisdom of ancestral and morphogenetic memory to enliven the mysteries of great and small, love and death, reality .... read more of the book description.