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Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing.
Peter Stark is an adventurer and historian. Born in Wisconsin, he grew up in an adventurous and outdoorsy family and graduated from Dartmouth College.
"Peter Stark is a master of bringing history to breathing, bleeding life. In Gallop Toward the Sun, he animates a little-known era with powerful twin protagonists -- Tecumseh and Harrison -- each epic in his own way. Stark adds a provocative thesis and argues it passionately. A great read."
The graceful, sweeping Rio São Francisco was part of what had drawn us here, and two weeks in, Penedo, population 30,000 or so, had held true to its laid-back promise. That, however, was all about to change. Story by Peter Stark | Outside Magazine, 2022 | Photo: Jen Judge.
Combining the adrenaline high of extreme sports with the startling facts of physiological reality, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark narrates a series of adventure stories in which thrill can cross the line to mortal peril.
“Peter Stark’s Astoria is a vivid recreation of an era when the Pacific Northwest was a vast unexploited wilderness, with Astoria as its main American colony. . . . Stark is particularly strong in describing the wilderness and its effects on human psychology.”
In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance ...
How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father. With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader.
New Books in Military History, Interview with Peter Stark — An interview with Stark about Gallop Towards the Sun with AJ Woodhams. October 14, 2023. Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for a Nation with Peter Stark — A podcast interview about Stark’s newest book. August 28, 2023.
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