Gallop Toward the Sun
released august, 2023
Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation
A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and Shawnee chief Tecumseh, whose Native American alliance almost stopped U.S. westward expansion. Their story chronicles the conquest of Indigenous land in the American East and Midwest through corrupt treaties and genocidal violence. The epic struggle illuminates a crucial turning point in the young nation's development.
“You can’t understand America without understanding this book.”
— Rinker Buck, bestselling author of The Oregon Trail and Life on the Mississippi
“Gallop Toward the Sun offers a much-needed reevaluation of this crucial period of our nation's history."
— Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War—a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution.
When acclaimed adventure writer Peter Stark was invited to Africa to join a small expedition kayaking down Mozambique’s Lugenda River, he balked. At the Mercy of the River is Stark’s harrowing, insightful account of his venture into the African wilderness, down 750 kilometers of largely unexplored waters.
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.
An enthralling blend of adventure and science, Last Breath re-creates in heart-stopping detail what happens to our bodies and our minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes awry.
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 — to the blank spots of Northern Maine, Western Pennsylvania, Central New Mexico and Southeast Oregon.