Mountain Nature

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“In a world of self-help, this is true inspiration, deeply admirable without the distance of heroism, bracing without stridency and, ultimately, generous. The mountain, Shepherd tells us, is ‘a corrective of glib assessment.’ So is its book.” —The New York Times Book Review An...

How far would you go to save someone you resent? Sullen teenager Sam is trapped on a forced march up a mountain with Cal, the father he barely knows—a man more comfortable with past ghosts than with his own son. An argument on the trail leaves their raw emotional wounds exposed, with cruel words that can never be taken back. But when a sudden, brutal blizzard engulfs the peak and a catastrophic fall leaves Cal broken and helpless, their simmering conflict becomes a desperate fight for life. In a terrifying reversal of roles, Sam must become the rescuer. Battling blinding snow, relentless ...

In 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine. On page after page, readers are treated to rich...

The publication of The Mountain of My Fear in 1968 and Deborah in 1970 changed the face of the mountaineering narrative. Now these two classic expedition narratives by acclaimed writer David Roberts are together again in one volume for a new generation of readers.

Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing. But more than that, it is a collection of stories about the lessons learned from surfing. It presents 38 stories about those who have...

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (—Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains...

Deep in the Adirondack mountains, a resurrected nightmare is waiting for the dinner bell to ring. Nate Bishop thought a summer head counselor position at the newly renovated Camp Kill Lake was the perfect escape. The brochures promised an unplugged digital detox for kids—the way summer camp used to be. But the new management is hiding a dark history of wildlife incidents that drove the previous owners into bankruptcy. They thought the massive black bear stalking the tree line was just a passing nuisance. They were wrong. When a violent summer storm washes out the only access road and cuts...

"Narrators Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, and Patti Murin provide outstanding performances, creating such believable characters that listeners might wonder if the story is based in fact."—Library Journal This program features multicast narration. New York Times bestselling author...

Want to paint peaceful watercolor landscapes without needing perfect drawing skills? Watercolor Landscapes for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Skies, Trees, Mountains, Water, Sunsets, Light, and Atmosphere is a practical beginner guide for adult learners, casual artists, and creative hobbyists who want to make simple landscape paintings feel softer, deeper, and more believable. Watercolor landscapes can feel intimidating at first. Skies turn streaky. Greens become muddy. Trees look stiff. Water does not reflect. Mountains feel flat. And a scene that looked beautiful in nature can quickly ...

The internationally bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods seeks a deeper personal connection to nature during this time of ecoanxiety and upheaval by exploring his own backyard. Long beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book...

Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown.

He broke his isolation to save them. Now, the river isn't the only thing hunting them. Seven years ago, a devastating river tragedy destroyed Jonah Reed’s career and drove him into absolute exile. Living in a plywood shack along the forbidden waters of the Blackwater Run, he maintains a fragile, unspoken pact with the gorge’s most terrifying secret: an eight-foot-tall apex guardian that tolerates Jonah’s presence only because he leaves no trace. But on the Fourth of July weekend, the outside world crashes through the canopy. When Tara Bell and her two children stumble into his camp, ...

Most people who visit the Great Smoky Mountains think they know what they're looking at. They don't. The Smokies are the most visited national park in America — drawing more than twelve million visitors a year, more than Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon combined. They contain one of the most biologically diverse temperate landscapes on earth. The forest that looks ancient grew back in the last hundred years. The blue haze has been rising from the mountains since before humans arrived. And the people who were displaced to create the park left behind cemeteries that their descendants still ...

Relax. Recharge. Run for your life. High in the secluded Swiss Alps, The Sorgente wellness retreat promises luxury, rejuvenation, and exclusivity: a paradise for celebrities seeking anonymity. Chloe – a stressed-out publicity crisis manager whose job just about qualifies her for this kind of...

A resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief. After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist, felt compelled to move—to do something, to be somewhere else. So she set out alone on the...

Ripley, an aging German Shepherd Dog, spent her life guarding the wildlife refuge with Max, the best man she’s ever known. But that was before the accident, before he gave her one final job: “Take care of the girls.” And Ripley has done just that—especially for Charlie, the girl Ripley loves even more than peanut butter. Ripley watches over Charlie with dedication, especially when faced with bullies who threaten the refuge. But Ripley is slowing down. She knows dogs don’t last forever.

THE LAST SHERPA: BOOK 1 The Sagarmatha Files Unzip the pocket. Thirty seconds. Fingers won't bend. Pull the radio free. Fifteen seconds of battery. Say the words that will either save eight lives or end them. That's the speed of death at 26,000 feet. Brody is a rescue team leader with a surfer's calm and a mountaineer's instincts. When corporate orders him to extract two stranded VIPs from Everest's Death Zone during the worst storm in recorded history, he knows the math. He runs it anyway. Eight climbers go up. The team is the rope. The rope is everything. But ropes fray — and so do ...

Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the...

A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature—from how Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to...