Results for "Fox, Porter"

One man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in ... Read More about The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

“Romantic, urgent, valuable and appealing as hell.” —Andrew McCarthy, New York Times Book Review Writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported and beautiful... Read More about Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

For readers of THE PERFECT STORM and BLUE LATITUDES, recast for our era of rapid ecological transformation, comes an urgent, stirring amalgam of climate writing, history, adventure story, and fascinating personal memoir. The story of extreme weather doesn’t begin with heat waves, floods, fires, or ... Read More about Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them

One man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in ... Read More about The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

Recommended by the New York Times Holiday Books Guide A quest to rediscover America’s other border—the fascinating but little-known northern one. America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s prim... Read More about Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

In his stunning first book, veteran ski writer Porter Fox captures the 8,000-year-old sport of skiing, the miracle of snow and the shocking truth of how climate change could wipe out both in the next 75 years. The narrative follows the unlikely rise of skiing from prehistoric Norwegian hunters to no... Read More about Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow