Brian Payton: 4 books
The Ice Passage
A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
A thrilling account of suffering and survival,The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny.
It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead...
Shadow of the Bear
Travels in Vanishing Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
We've been meeting bears in the wilderness, and in our dreams, since the dawn of human history. Celebrated in art and myth since we began drawing on the walls of caves, they cast a long shadow over our collective subconscious. Wherever bears endure, they are an indicator of the health of their ecosystem....
The Wind Is Not a River
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands.
Following the death of his...
by Brian Payton
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood.
High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy...