David's Book Reviews

Crooked River Country: Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons I grew up in western Oregon, which seems to have mostly been settled by pious, indus...

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery I  love the idea of exploring space. Perhaps it doesn't have a lot of practical...

Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While) Many "sports books" tend to be a bit formulaic: the hero starts ...

Child of Steens Mountain I love to read about life in wild places in the past, and this book didn't disappoint.  Indeed, I enjoyed the...

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. The latest from Neal Stephenson, this feels like an apple that hasn't fallen far from the tree. Somehow ...

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man First a hero in dime novels, and subsequently reviled as a killer of Native Americans, this...

Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier "The Frontier", once described as those places with less th...