Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

In 1953 William Willis built a raft out of balsa logs and sailed from Peru to Pago Pago. Thrill seekers like this may be a dime a dozen today but not so sixty years ago. Willis's trip was also unordinary considering he was sixty years old when he did it. And then he did it again. When he was 70. Only the second time he sailed from Peru to Australia. Willis built his rafts on the cheap, made inadequate pre... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Jon Fine

This is an enjoyable game by game, sometimes day-by-day, recounting of the Red Sox 2004 Championship season. In the journal entries of lifelong, die hard fans O'Nan and King, we become deeply acquainted with the chronic disease that is Red Sox fandom. These guys are obsessed (even moreso than yours truly) but their microcosmic obsession with every element of the shaping of the 2004 Red Sox roster and team dynamic... read more>>>

Publisher Comments

By the time David Roberts turned twenty-two, he had been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had himself escaped death by the sheerest of luck.

At age eighteen, Roberts witnessed the death of his first climbing partner in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later, he was the first on the scene of a fatal accident on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Months afterward, while pioneering a new route in Alaska with the Harvard Mountaineering C... read more>>>