John Burroughs 2010 Medal Awarded to Michael Welland main content.
The John Burroughs Association announces the 2010 winner of its annual award, created 84 years ago to honor outstanding natural history writing, a genre perfected by John Burroughs: Michael Welland, for his book Sand: The Never-Ending Story (University of California Press, 2009). In Sand, Welland reflects on the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.