In THE COLD VANISH, we learn about what happens when someone goes missing in the North American wilderness. The core of the book investigates the disappearance of Jacob Gray, who vanished into Washington State’s Olympic National Park in April 2017. Billman looks at Jacob’s disappearance through the lens of many other cold vanishes – some well-known and others never reported -- from across the USA and Canada.
The Greywacke by Nick Davidson
The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet when they revealed the narrative structure of the Paleozoic Era, the 300-million-year period during which life on Earth became recognisably itself.
Notes from Deep Time by Helen Gordon
The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative.
Huts by Lesley Riddoch
Lesley Riddoch relives her own bothy experience, rediscovers lost hutting communities, travels through hytte-covered Norway and suggests that thousands of humble woodland huts would give Scots a vital post-covid connection with nature in their own beautiful land.
Corrour Bothy by Ralph Storer
Corrrour Bothy is the oldest and most famous bothy in the Cairngorms and Corrour Bothy combines a wealth of background and historical information with a treasury of evocative extracts from visitor records, ranging from humorous to the poetic.
Himalaya by Ed Douglas
First major history of the Himalaya – an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains. Spanning millennia, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment at the 'roof of the world'.
Dammed If You Don't by Chris Kalman
Dammed If You Don't is the fictional story of one man’s quest to save a remote valley in Patagonian Chile from being destroyed by a hydroelectric dam, and the unforeseen consequences of his actions.
The Third Pole by Mark Synnott
Mark Synnott never planned to climb Everest, but the hundred-year mystery of two lost pioneers lured him into an expedition. On his own dramatic quest to the summit and beyond, he discovers Everest’s compelling history of adventure, tragedy and aspiration.
Signs of Life by Stephen Fabes
When Stephen Fabes left his job as a doctor and set out to cycle around the world, he learned the value of listening to lives. And seeing care for the sick as a duty born of our humanity and compassion.
Writing Appalachia by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd
Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation’s finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, Writing Appalachia showcases for the first time the nuances and contradictions that place Appalachia at the heart of American history.