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Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing.
Story by Peter Stark | Outside Magazine, 2003 | Photo: Shutterstock last time around The author’s father traveled the world, shipped out on the last commercial sailing voyage around Cape Horn, and handed down a legacy of adventure.
Based in Missoula, Montana, he now specializes in researching and writing historical accounts of early American explorers in wilderness settings and their contact with Indigenous peoples.
Jan 31, 2019 · NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author and historian Peter Stark about his second-person narrative "Frozen Alive" in Outside Magazine which deals explicitly with hypothermia's physiological...
Feb 7, 2023 · In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance ...
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Feb 7, 2023 · In The Last Empty Places , bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance from the East ...
Sep 5, 2023 · Peter Stark is an adventurer and historian. Born in Wisconsin, he attended Dartmouth College and took a master's in journalism at the University of Wisconsin. He set out to write adventure-travel articles about Greenland, Tibet, Africa, and elsewhere for magazines such as Outside, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, and others. Based in ...
Peter Stark is an adventure and exploration writer and historian. Born in Wisconsin, he studied English and anthropology at Dartmouth College, took a master’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and headed off to the remote spots of the world writing magazine articles and books.
Jun 18, 2019 · Peter Stark was born in Wisconsin to an adventurous and outdoorsy family and began traveling when young in canoes, on skis, and also by more conventional means. He received a bachelor’s degree...
Peter Stark – Tales of Adventure, Exploration, & Epic Battles. Photo by Amy Ragsdale. If you’re a long-time Mountain & Prairie listener, then I’m sure you’ve heard me reference the author and historian Peter Stark.
