Christopher Reich, author of Rules of Vengeance, reviews Ed Viesturs's K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain: "The man is to mountaineering what Michael Jordan is to basketball. If that is, Michael Jordan had risked losing his life every time he stepped onto the basketball court.
A giant of American literature, Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was a prolific novelist as well as a preeminent chronicler of the west. His many books include Angle of Repose--winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction--and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, considered an essential history of American exploration.
In Timothy Egan's new book, The Big Burn, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Worst Hard Time examines the largest forest fire in American history--the "Big Burn" of 1910 that consumed over 3 million acres in two days.
