North Point Press imprint: 95 books
Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as...
The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau
Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2002
Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.
With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense...
It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks
A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Life is a series of losses. I've decided to be very Zen about it. I have lost two husbands, my parents, my brother, countless friends; it is just one loss after another. You might as well get used to it." So muses the author's mother in this poignant and humorous memoir about mothers and daughters.
Loss...
Prater Violet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's...
The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself
Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself....
Serious Pig
An American Cook in Search of His Roots
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
In this collection of essays, John Thorne sets out to explore the origins of his identity as a cook, going "here" (the Maine coast, where he'd summered as a child and returned as an adult for a decade's sojourn), "there" (southern Louisiana, where he was captivated by Creole and...
by Joe Eck
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Elements of Garden Design does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or a particular class of plant. Joe Eck explores the idea of a garden, and offers a practical approach to translating concepts such as "intention"...
Roses
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2003
Thirty-three eminent gardeners on their favorite rose
Among the plant kingdom, Rosa is a relatively small genus, comprising only about one hundred species around the globe. But as these species intercross, they have given rise to as many as thirty thousand cultivars, making the rose perhaps...
Between Meals
An Appetite for Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris.
“There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling....
Great Possessions
An Amish Farmer's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
Great Possessions is David Kline's classic memoir celebrating his life as an Amish farmer in Southern Ohio.
"Infectiously avid, the author shares his knowledge of mushrooming in spring, chopping firewood in fall, maple-sugaring in late winter, bird-watching all year round, and going on...
Here and Nowhere Else
Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A landmark new translation and edition
Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and...
The Dark Heart of Italy
An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage...