This is probably the best nonfiction "story" I've ever read. It kept me on the edge of suspense while constantly teaching me all sorts of amazing history about water, dams, and rivers in the West. Some of that history was truly eyebrow raising information that I could never have gained were it not for Fedarko's level of investment and research into this wild and wonderful story.
From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.
In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named “The Emerald Mile” at the head of the…
James Brown's The Boys in the Boat creates such an in-depth, detailed, and emotion filled true story about one of the most remarkable Olympic Sports gold medal wins in American sports history. But this classic work of nonfiction set in the late 1930's in Washington State weaves together such a beautiful tapestry of emotion, determination, skill and prowess that it often brought me to tears while reading. Beyond that, I learned an immense amount about the classic building of rowing skulls as well as much of the early history of people's lives in the early American Pacific Northwest.
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany-from the author of Facing the Mountain.
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George Clooney
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times-the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the…
Elliott Merrick's True North literally transported me to the true wilderness of Labrador and allowed me to feel the wonder, the challenges, the beauty, and the pain of those early trappers and First People inhabitants who survived one of the harshest environments on earth. The prose verged often on poetry, and the description was truly transcendent.
The enthralling memoir of a 1930s couple whose passion for nature led them on a winter’s-long hunting trek through one of the most remote regions of Canada
While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions.
True North tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin…
Walking Natural Pathways is an eclectic journey through poetry which uses thematic chapters to present a wide range of poetic styles. All of these poems focus on the beauty, inspiration, and even the challenges that exist in that ever-changing man-to-nature interface. The final chapter of the book features Doherty's lyrical songs for the natural world.
