In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For so...

Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of two national parks, three national wildlife refuges, parts of six national forests, and eleven wilderness areas, Greater Yellowstone is a vast array of differing environments and geographies.In a series of essays, Turner explores this wonderland, venturing on twelve separate trips in all seasons using various modes of travel: h...

Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear friends. Later in life, he led treks in India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet, and Peru, but he always returned to the mountains of his youth. He continues to climb the Tetons as a guide for Exum Mountain, Guides, the oldest and most prestigious guide service in America. Teewinot is his ode to forty years in the mountains that he loves.

The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the...

If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us.How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal...

In the heart of the Sahara, legends speak of a lost city made of gold — The Golden Citadel, where a forgotten king once trapped the power of the sun itself. When former soldier and adventurer Daniel Creed comes into possession of an ancient map, his search for fortune becomes a race against death. Pursued by ruthless treasure hunters and haunted by the desert's secrets, Daniel joins forces with Zahra Al-Mansur, a woman bound to the Citadel by blood and destiny. Together, they uncover a civ...

Infania: Let's Go Treasure Hunting is the first in a series of novels all following the same band of oddball criminals that never manage to get anything done without a few bumps and scrapes along the way. Things only get odder when they come across a new cabin boy. What follows is a story filled with action, adventure, and everything in between, except for a well thought out plan. No one really seems to know what's going on, which happens to be part of the fun.

Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the...

How Walt Whitman’s philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equalityHumans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest for immortality—literal or symbolic—is politically destructive. He does so through a meditation on the work of Walt Whitman. Whitman held that democracy prepares in...

What happens when the artificial intelligence (AI) technology we rely on becomes the greatest threat to human survival?Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”In 12 Years to AI Singularity, Peter Solomon delivers a gripping, near-future epic that follows the humans, sentient robots, and large language models, LLMs, racing toward the most pivotal ...

The world's most favorite couple is in a fake marriage.Kara - If there's one mistake I'll never make again, it's falling in love. A certain member of the male anatomy makes me stupid apparently, and anyway, I'm too busy building my empire. All I need is my favorite toy and my bestie to keep me happy, or so I keep telling myself.Cole - I fell in love with my best friend in college and married her when her heart was broken to pieces. But Kara is under the distinct impression ...

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...*A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers… sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters and an important mission to complete.Will they fool the king?Will they save the day?Will they even work out which end of the sword to use?!The New Musketeers features brilliant music, terrible swo...