Growing up in a small rural Kansas town, Scott spent an inordinate amount of time at the library reading and dreaming of faraway places with mountains and trees.  When it came time to leave home he hit the school books and logging roads, earning a forestry degree, and for years hauled one book or another in his backpack through some of the most remote and beautiful wilderness areas of the country.  Scott has been a bookseller for 22 years now (a career in “wood products” the forester in him insists). Away from Auntie’s he can be found teaching Chinese art T’ai chi ch’uan or studying the Encyclopedia Britannica in preparation for his upcoming appearance on Jeopardy.  Scott recommends Ishmael, Siddhartha, Brothers K, Desert Solitaire, Booked to Die, and Einstein’s Dreams.