434 results for '"Wilder"'

Featured in the Wall Street Journal's 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize Finalist Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” But where did the idea originate?...

A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges,...

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway...

"Originally published in 1978, this special 25th anniversary edition includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to...

This “genre-shredding” (Tor.com) feminist dystopian eco-horror, perfect for fans of The Last of Us, traces a girl’s coming-of-age on a post-apocalyptic trek through the Southwest.In a bleak,...

National Book Award-winning author James Dickey's New York Times bestseller Deliverance is an unforgettable tale of violent action and profound inner discovery—the basis for the Academy...

“Men speak freely of the women they’ve had, and we’re condemned to silence. Why? Aren’t we as free as you? Don’t we, like you, have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? . . . They praise...

Publishing one hundred years after her birth, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe is a kaleidoscopic tour of her life told through 100 captivating snapshots. Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon...

From the experts of exploration at National Geographic, this practical, wide-ranging wilderness survival guide gives kids the know-how to start a fire, build a shelter, escape an avalanche, and so...

From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chicago Tribune)...

For more than four decades, biblical experts have tried to place the story of Exodus into historical context--without success. What could explain the Nile turning to blood, insects swarming the land,...

“Not to be missed.”—Booklist “A moody, atmospheric, and singular novel which navigates corners of American history through the complicated territory of horror, the monstrous, and the heroic.”—Kelly...

Fans of Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Shiloh will love this timeless classic about two dogs and a cat that embark on a journey to return to their owner and inspired the movie Homeward...

From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth--where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia Siberia's story is...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the...

The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In...

A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared futureThe ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth's land surface...

"A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the...

The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and...

“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post “A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect...