Peter Stark, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-345-44181-2
Stark was a happily married, 48-year-old father of two when he answered a crew call for "the first descent" of northern Mozambique's Lugenda River. The hazards—man-eating crocodiles, unknown rapids—worried him, but the...
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Peter Stark, Author Burford Books $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55821-320-3
Snow and ice warm Stark's heart, and in this collection of a dozen essays, most of which appeared in the Smithsonian and Outside, he envelops readers in the frigid charms of ski jumping, narwhal hunting, dogsledding, iceboat sailing, skating on thin
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Peter Stark. Ecco, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-221829-2
At the dawn of the 19th century, America's Eastern coast had largely been settled, but the West remained largely uncharted and undeveloped. In 1810, entrepreneur John Jacob Astor proposed to Thomas Jefferson that Astor start a trading colony in what
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Peter Stark. Ecco, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-241606-3
Stark (Astoria) puts his background as an adventure writer to good use, bringing thrilling immediacy and literary flair to George Washington’s youthful exploits as a Western surveyor and eventual participant in the French and Indian War. Tracing...
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Peter Stark. Random House, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-13361-3
In this intriguing study, historian Stark (Young Washington) examines the conflict between two major figures of the America’s “western destiny,” William Henry Harrison and Shawnee chief Tecumseh. Focusing on the decades leading up to the War of 1812,
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