Press – Journeys by JB

Press Coverage

— Helene Woodhams
Arizona Daily Star

“Naturalist and self-proclaimed 21st-century caveman Joe “JB” Billings is the guy you want along when bushwhacking through wild country or paddling out to sea in a watercraft made of reeds. You might especially welcome him to join you around the campfire to swap stories: he’s got some great ones, as his new memoir cum adventure journal makes abundantly clear…”

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— Ries Lindley
Arizona Native Plant Society

“Most of us must lead our lives confined by the external obligations of job, family, taxes, rent/mortgage, and the like. Some of this group, just a few, no doubt, somehow manage to live with all those pesky obligations and still weave their quest for knowledge, dreams, and adventure around the inescapable and prosaic facts of life…”

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— Bob Barnes
The Black Range Naturalist

“Billings describes a life many of us can relate to, and have cherished, but never committed to the page. The fact that someone has put that way of knowing nature to the page benefits all of us. His explorations of the (mostly) dry areas of the southwestern U. S. and northwestern Mexico were sometimes trying but never diminishing. Billings took on every challenge with an attitude of “I can make this work”…

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— Alan Dale
Herald Review

“Having grown up a lover of nature it was only natural that JB Billings would write a book about his relationship with the great wide world. “Journeys of a Pure Naturalist” is an adventure story through different time periods, ranging widely between the most formidable mountain wilderness in Southern Arizona to the remotest archipelagos along both shores of the Sea of Cortez. In parts one and three of the book, ideal rural living spaces in Pima County are the catalysts, giving rise to intensive study projects focused on Stone Age tools and weaponry, rearing native butterflies/host plants and concentrated surveys for native host and pollinator plants.”