Mountain Nature

“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...

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“Thrilling and intrepid. A beautiful tale of dramatic, wild landscapes and the entangled lives of snow leopards, their prey, and the humans who share their terrain.” —Andrea Wulf, bestselling author of The Invention of Nature “By turns beautiful, terrible, and encouraging.”...

Discovering their newfound tradition and love for camping at the Grand Tetons, The Campground Kids anticipate their next adventure—exploring the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Shortly after they arrive, the family receives bear encounter training. The Campground Kids soon understand why...

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...

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...

"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...

Nineteen years ago, the Blackrock backcountry claimed the life of an experienced hunter. The official report blamed a tragic accident and animal scavenging. The discovery of a single impossible footprint in a forgotten search photograph proves the coroner was wrong. Keir Hollis returns to the deep woods to retrace his father's final steps and finally lay his grief to rest. He expects to find closure in the silent forest. Instead, his small expedition uncovers a trail of mutilated wildlife and an apex predator that has claimed the drainage as its exclusive territory. Forced off the trail by ...

The trail never ends. But your luck just might. The spanning wilderness offers isolation, beauty, and the ultimate test of human endurance. But when the sun drops behind the Blue Ridge Mountains and the fog rolls into the deep hollows, the woods belong to something else. In this massive new omnibus collection of 30 terrifying short tales, the ultimate hiking adventure becomes a fight for survival against the ancient, the unexplained, and the unforgiving. From the claustrophobic darkness of abandoned antebellum tunnels to the freezing, wind-whipped suspension bridges, these narratives ...

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 horse of her own would be awesome. But Kate figures that might be a long way away, especially since she had to give up riding lessons and move to her late grandfather’s farm. Besides, it would be a lot more fun to have a best friend to ride with. When Kate discovers a barn on their new farm that’s perfect for a horse, and a dusty bridle too, she starts to think that her dream might come true. Then she meets Tori at school, who is totally the best. So when they discover a thoroughbred that appears to be all alone, could it be the answer to her prayers?

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...

Warren Angus Ferris (1810-1873) was a trapper, cartographer and diarist in the Rocky Mountains from 1830 to 1835. In 1829, he joined the American Fur Company to explore the Rocky Mountains. He kept a journal of his travels which were published as the book Life in the Rocky Mountains (1940), which gives an account of the Platte River Valley, Cache Valley, the area around Salt Lake City, and Snake River Country. Ferris found Native American guides and made a detour into what is today Yellowstone National Park.

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 ...

A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept...

On the afternoon of July 13, 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse.

The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson, author of the best-selling A Walk in the Woods, the AT has seized the American imagination like no other hiking path. The 2,000-mile-long hike from Georgia to Maine is not just a trail through the woods, but a set of ideas about nature etched in the forest floor.

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...

The Impossible Mountains takes place in the Sawtooth Mountains of north-central Idaho where former Princeton professor of Stoic philosophy Dr. Donald Deane, who is suffering from a terminal condition, comes to find a beautiful death in the wild natural environment of the mountains. Instead, he finds of the love of Molly Beth McClain along the trails of the towering peaks. Molly Beth has come to find relief from her trying life after she has saved a seventeen-year-old girl, Jasmine Jessup, from a sexually abusive situation. The wild nature of the mountains extends to the wild men of the ...

2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction, and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) “A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought...