Richard Bevis taught English at the American University of Beirut and the University of British Columbia for thirty-two years, during which he published several books, mostly on eighteenth-century English drama. Since retiring, he has published two books on the aesthetics of nature, and *Dudes and Savages,* a memoir of a summer in Yellowstone Park in 1957. *Wanderjahr* is based on his journals of travel in 1959-60. At present he lives in Vancouver, where he spends his time reading, writing, practicing music, supporting the arts and looking after an old house.

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