I love eating salmon but am aware of the loss of salmon habitat that is limiting the supply. Stronghold illuminated the life of an unusual guy who has dedicated himself to preserving the remaining salmon rivers in places as distant as Russia and what that has meant for all the creatures and vegetation that depend on this fish.
PNBA BESTSELLER * "A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read."--Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia Editors' Choice: The New York Times Book Review * Outside Magazine * National Book Review * Forbes * Amazon
In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey's eye-opening account of one of the world's greatest fly fishermen and his crusade to protect the world's last bastion of wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among…
As a result of reading this book, I now eat buffalo with great enthusiasm. Buffalo, or bison, meat has far less fat than beef, is quite tender and tasty if cooked more quickly than beef, and comes from an animal that is instrumental in restoring American prairie land. The story of one man's introduction to buffalo and the history of his surrounding ranch land unfolds in an interesting, compelling way.
For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O'Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden balls of wool,” O'Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half.
Buffalo for the Broken Heart is at once a tender account of the buffaloes' first seasons on the ranch and an engaging lesson…
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name
“A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction.”—Vogue (Best of 2025 Preview)
A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this “lushly painted” (People) historical epic of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.
Four years old and homeless in 1930, William Walters climbed aboard one of the last American Orphan Trains, and, without knowing it, embarked on an extraordinary path through nine decades of U.S. history. For 75 years, Orphan Trains transported 250,000 children from the East Coast into homes in the emerging West, sometimes providing loving new families, other times delivering kids into nightmares. Taken by a cruel New Mexico couple, William faced a terrible trial, but his strength and resilience carried him forward into remarkable adventure. Whether escaping his abusers, jumping freights as a kid during the Great Depression, or infiltrating Japanese-held islands in special ops as a teenager during WWII, William’s astonishing quest paralleled the tumult of the twentieth century—and personified the American dream. .
