Books from Torrey House Press
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The Talker: Stories
By Mary SojournerWe could tell the truth. We could get through what sometimes follows after truth is told. We kept saying how good it was, as though our words were a charm. “This is so good,” he might say, “sitting here before the day gets hot, ...
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Through the Woods: A Journey Through America's Forests
By Gary Ferguson... from the front porch of the Franconia Mountains—the farm he decided he just had to have, and so one spring day he went up to the owner, who was out raking his yard, and suggested to Herbert Willis that he move next door instead.
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The Story of My Heart
By Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams... consciousness toward a richer, more meaningful contemplation of what it means to be alive and human. And Rick Bass, Janisse Ray, Bill McKibben, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert Michael Pyle, George Venn, Brenda Peterson, and Linda Hogan.
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River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
By Jonathan P. ThompsonPotter, James M. Animas-La Plata Project: Volume XVI — Final Synthetic Report. SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10. Phoenix: SWCA Inc., 2010. Potter, James M., and Jason P. Chuipka. “Perimortem Mutilation of Human Remains in an ...
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The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West
By Rebecca LawtonIn Northern California, the process is the same, but we call the winds Diablo. Devil winds. What we don't know yet is that meteorologists will label this a twohundred-year weather event. Days later we'll hear radio broadcasters describe ...
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Accidentals
By Susan GainesWhen Gabriel accompanies his mother from California to her native Uruguay, he discovers new love, new bird species, and life-altering family secrets.
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Howl: of Woman and Wolf
By Susan Imhoff BirdI'm still perfecting my howl. ... I'm embarrassed, a last vestige of un-wild me clinging to my structure. ... I hear people say two wolves fell in love; I'm not sure I can accept as fact that wolves experience love.
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Yellowstone Standoff
By Scott GrahamIn addition to the National Park Mystery series, Scott is the author of five nonfiction books, including Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
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The Legend's Daughter
By David KranesNo one looked like Rankin. Bachman approached a bartender, wearing a nametag that read Potter. “Rankin here still?” Bachman asked. “Rankin took off”, Potter—who, if Rankin had been tall, redheaded and forty, could have been Rankin—said.
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Tributary
By Barbara Richardson“Tributary is a remarkable odyssey of the American West, told in one of the most clear-sighted, unjudging, and original voices I've come across in years.” — Molly Gloss, author of e Hearts ofHorses “is is a gorgeous novel.
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Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place
By Pam Houston, Amy IrvinePublished by Torrey House Press Salt Lake City, Utah www.torreyhouse.org International Standard Book Number: 978-1-948814-38-6 E-book ISBN: 978-1-948814-39-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2020938536 Cover art by Claire Taylor ...
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Yosemite Fall
By Scott GrahamSCOTT GRAHAM is the author of eight books, including the National Park Mystery Series from Torrey House Press, and Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
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Canyon Sacrifice
By Scott GrahamArchaeologist Chuck Bender races to save his kidnapped daughter as ancient and modern cultures collide in Grand Canyon National Park.
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Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
By Jonathan P. ThompsonThe Sutherland Institute, a conservative Salt Lake City think tank with clear religious leanings (its board chairman runs the GFC—God, Family, Country—Foundation), with funding from the likes of the Koch brothers, exploited the ...
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Airmail
By Pam Houston, Amy IrvineLetters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Colorado's high country, one on either side of the Continental Divide.
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Through the Woods: A Journey Through America's Forests
By Gary FergusonThis edition includes a new introduction by Gary Ferguson, who reminds us that now, more than ever, kinship with the earth is essential.
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Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
By Gary FergusonIn many ways, this book is an important portrait of one of the foundations of our country's democracy, and of the struggles to hold on to that idea." —RICK BASS, author of All the Land to Hold Us "Hawks Rest is a long step toward a user's ...
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Before Us Like a Land of Dreams
By Karin Anderson"This masterwork flouts expectations." —FOREWORD REVIEWS, starred review Before Us Like a Land of Dreams follows a disheartened mother traveling an evocative route through the arid West.
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Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
By David GessnerDAVID GESSNER is the author of Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness and the New York Times–bestselling All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West.
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Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West
By Zak PodmoreIn 1869, the Powell expedition camped at the confluence. One of the boatmen, George Bradley, wrote the Little Colorado was “a lothesome [sic] little stream, so filthy and muddy that it fairly stinks.” Jack Sumner, another expedition ...