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I’m a writer who contributes to magazines, travel guidebooks, and the occasional website. I’m also a contributing editor at Down East magazine and the author of The Footloose American, forthcoming from Broadway Books in May of 2014.

I like the outdoors, public lands policy, American history, beer, people with interesting jobs, the Grateful Dead, and airport newsstands.

Some of my stories have been recognized in the Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing anthologies, and I’ve received a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. I grew up in Wisconsin and have lived in Minnesota, Montana, and Oregon. Home is currently a fishing village in Maine.

Oh yeah, and I really did write those gun books, which is kind ...more

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	The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America 3.79 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's Maine Coast 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Gun Safety 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guns & Ammunition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gun History & Development 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildsam Field Guides: Lake Michigan Coast by Brian Kevin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Zach Dundas (Editor), Ryan Duggan (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guns & Special Weapons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“stepping out of the airport into coastal Colombia is like getting bludgeoned with a sack of wet laundry.”
― Brian Kevin, The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America

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“and ten years later, I found myself still wondering about that act of transformation, about how you could leave home one day and come back with a clearer understanding of your own world and your place in it.”
― Brian Kevin, The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America