NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel...read more

Product Description: Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr...read more

Product Description: Four cassettes, 6 hrs.Read by James NaughtonIn January 1945, 121 hand-selected troops fom the elite U&.S Army Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: Attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a surreally hellish camp, near the city of Cabantuan, thirty miles distant...read more

Product Description: Join longtime Outside editor and contributor Hampton Sides as he rollicks through the fascinating, quirky questions readers ask about the world around them.Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down? Why are there so many worms writhing on the sidewalk after a storm? What good are goosebumps? Why do llamas spit? What is the oldest living creature on earth? Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic...read more

A chronicle of one of the most pivotal eras in American histor by the author of the international bestseller GHOST SOLDIERS

The author of Ghost Soldiers examines the real-life story of America's Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes that stood in the way, including the fierce and bloody battles against the Navajo, which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and 'the Long Walk' migration. (History -- United States)

Product Description: Praise for Blood and Thunder“Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans...read more

Chronicles the daring mission of the elite U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion to slip behind enemy lines in the Phillipines and rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a hellish, Japanese-run camp near Cabanatuan.

The best-selling author of Ghost Soldiers shares some of his insightful essays and articles, originally written for Outside, The New Yorker, and DoubleTake, among other publications, that look at some of America's unforgettable people, distinctive places, and unusual events. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Based on personal accounts from the survivors, 'Ghost Soldiers' tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of its kind.

Product Description: ¿Por qué escupen las llamas? ¿Por qué las lagartijas siempre están haciendo flexiones? ¿Cómo evitan los pingüinos que se les congelen los pies? ¿Para qué sirven las tetillas masculinas? ¿Detectan el miedo del hombre las abejas? ¿Por qué titilan las estrellas? Estas y otras muchas preguntas encuentran cabal respuesta en este libro tan ameno como aleccionador, que entre risa y risa, entre sorpresa y sorpresa, nos lleva a conocer mejor el fascinante mundo en que vivimos...read more

A social analysis of eight uniquely American groups, from the Bohemian Club to the Church of God in Christ, shows to what extent American identities are shaped by involvement in groups and pastimes. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.