This is the story of two men in one canoe, but on two different journeys. One sees endless opportunities while the other knows his fate is sealed before he ever picks up his paddle. Fresh and honest, light and dark, terminal yet hopeful—these are the undercurrents of a gifted storyteller.
Howard Corwin, M.D., Psychiatrist, Conservationist
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.
The CT Walk Book West provides a comprehensive guide to hiking covering the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails from central CT (including the Metacomet and Mattabesett Trails) the the west. Published by CFPA and edited by our own Ann Colson, this is the 19th edition of the guidebook that was first released more than 75 years ago.
Includes detailed two-color topographic maps that are crisp, clear, and easy to read. Complete trail descriptions accompany the maps.
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Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter.
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William Sargent's latest book chronicles a year spent exploring the North Woods of New Hampshire. Through words and photographs, the man about whom Publishers Weekly wrote, "With his fine descriptions and lucid explanations, Sargent joins the company of Lewis Thomas and Stephen Jay Gould as a first rate interpreter of modern science" investigates a new area's geology, ecology, and natural history. Centered primarily in the Franconia Notch, the book ranges to include Mount Washington Observatory, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Palermo Mine, and New Hampshire Audubon's Peregrine Tagging Program.
University Press of New England
Not Without Peril is a stark reminder of just how dangerous [the Presidential Mountain Range of New Hampshire] can be, especially for casual visitors who underestimate the challenges they present. Beginning with the story of Frederick Strickland (the first recorded fatality on Mount Washington, 1849), through the "Deadliest Season" (1994), almost every chapter ends with one or more fatalities. Not Without Peril remains recommended reading for any first-timer planning a trip to the Presidential Range. No doubt the Appendix-which describes the circumstances surrounding each of the 140 known fatalities that occurred on Mount Washington between 1849 and 2009-should give these same readers pause.
-From Failure Magazine
