Peter Heller, Author . Rodale $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-1-57954-872-8
Dedicated kayakers have long had their hearts set on the Tsangpo River, which cuts a gorge through Tibet many times deeper and steeper than the Grand Canyon; successfully navigating it is akin to snowboarding down Everest. The last major expedition...
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Peter Heller, Author Free Press 15 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9420-1
Journalist Heller’s gripping memoir of finding the value of life while shooting the curl off Baja starts off as a disappointing middle-aged man’s lament about the lack of love and meaning in his life. Just back from an exhausting assignment in Tibet,
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Peter Heller, Author Free Press $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3246-0
In late 2005, award-winning adventure writer Heller joined Paul Watson and his 44-person crew on their voyage to find and halt an illegal Japanese whaling fleet en route to the Antarctic sea. Watson, founder of Greenpeace in 1972, says he abruptly...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-95994-2
In the tradition of postapocalyptic literary fiction such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse, this hypervisceral first novel by adventure writer Heller (Kook) takes place nine years after a superflu has killed off much of...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-35209-3
Jim Stegner, celebrated painter, ardent fisherman and homespun philosopher, narrates this masterful novel, in which love (parental and romantic), artistic vision, guilt, grief, and spine-chilling danger propel a suspenseful plot. In one aspect of...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-49389-7
Despite its intriguing premise, Heller’s (The Dog Stars) third novel is a missing persons mystery that never quite finds its mark. Celine, descended from the original governors of the Plymouth Colony, is a well-heeled investigator, the “Prada PI,”...
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Peter Heller, Author, Patrick Girard Lawlor, Read by , read by Patrick Lawlor. Tantor $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0141-2
To Buddhists, Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge is a sacred place—drinking one drop of its water is said to free you from rebirth as a lower life form. It was the inspiration for Shangri-La in the novel-turned-movie Lost Horizon
and, to kayakers, it...
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Peter Heller, read by Mark Deakins. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10.75 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-4490-1311-3
Hig, the hero of Heller’s thoughtful postapocalyptic novel, is a soft man in a hard world. One of the few survivors of a virus that wiped out most of humanity, Hig is better suited to reading poetry, fishing with his dog, and reminiscing than...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-52187-7
Heller (Celine) explores human relationships buffeted by outside forces in his suspenseful latest. The central friendship is between two young men, Wynn and Jack, students who have taken a leave of absence from Dartmouth to explore the Canadian...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-65776-7
Jack
, the rustic if Ivy League–educated hero of this captivating thriller from Edgar finalist Heller (The River), takes a job as a seasonal fishing guide at Colorado’s posh Kingfisher Lodge in an effort to escape his traumatic past and the tedium...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-53511-0
Heller (The Guide) offers an immersive story of a dedicated Yellowstone park ranger and the threats he faces down. Ren Hopper spends his days policing poachers and saving families from animal attacks. In his spare time, he likes to read Russian...
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Peter Heller. Knopf, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-80162-8
A Maine camping trip turns into a fight for survival in this meditative dystopian thriller from Heller (The Last Ranger). Best friends Jess and Storey are headed home from their annual moose hunt when they find their route cut off by a bridge that...
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