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From its source in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean, the Los Angeles River is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Graffiti marks its banks. Discarded sofas, shopping carts, and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river’s wide, paved bed, often almo… More >>

The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth

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A one-of-a-kind, invaluable resource for anyone who travels to Death Valley, this guide provides smart, practical advice to access its jaw-dropping natural landscape.

Death Valley is truly a land of extremes. From otherworldly texture and terrain to ghost towns and abandoned mines, this expansive park is home to some of the most unique and inspiring landscapes anywhere on the planet, and visitors from around the world come to experience its striking ge… More >>

The Photographer’s Guide to Death Valley: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them

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From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of t… More >>

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1997, The Spears of Twilight chronicles the experiences of Philippe Descola, student of Claude Lvi-Strauss, among the legendary Achuar Indians of South America. Combining ethnography, travelogue, and personal meditation, The Spears of Twilight is an engrossing account of the resilient and complex Achuar people, as well as an intimate and often poetic account of Descola’s sojourn among them. Amazon.com Review
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The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

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An in-depth investigation into the heroin trade in Afghanistan—including who runs it, who’s profiting, and who’s lives are caught in the balance Afghanistan has become the world’s largest producer of opium and its offshoot, heroin—all under the noses of Western civil and military stakeholders. At the nexus of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, truth is as elusive and fragile as the new democracy itself, now on the brink of being consu… More >>

Poppy: Life, Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan’s Opium Trade

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The area known as Dogtown—an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts—has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984, a brutal murder took pla… More >>

Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town

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This Trails Illustrated topographic map for Death Valley National Park, which straddles the state lines of eastern California and western Nevada, is the perfect recreational map for this dramatic park, which encompasses the hottest, driest, and lowest places in the US. Within its three million acres you will find oceans of sand dunes, dramatic snow-capped mountains, spectacular geological formations, and breathtaking views.

The map includes the entire nation… More >>

Death Valley National Park, CA – Trails Illustrated Map #221

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Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general…. More >>

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

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For fans of Into Thin Air, here is a gripping narrative that brings to life both the sublime and the struggle of a climbers life. Two hundred and sixteen miles south of the Arctic circle is Denali, otherwise known as Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, rising more than twenty thousand feet into the Alaskan sky. In this exhilarating account, Jonathan Waterman, a former guide on Denali, paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white lev… More >>

In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley

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Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, is a land where lizards scream and monkey-like lemurs sing songs of inexpressible beauty. Where animals and plants that went extinct elsewhere millions of years ago — tenrecs, fossa, upside-down trees — thrive in a true Lost World. Where the ancestors of the Malagasy, as the island’s eighteen tribes are collectively known, come alive in rollicking ceremonies known as “turning the bones.” Here, join Peter Tyson on a di… More >>

The Eighth Continent:: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar