Elliott Bay Book Company hosted a reading co-sponsored by UW EarthLab and the Washington Sea Grant on Jan. 14 in celebration ...
If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Author and international whitewater river guide Bridget Crocker shares the books that helped inspire her new memoir, 'The River's ...
On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Take a virtual tour of our newest exhibition Nature of the Book! The exhibition explores books of the hand-press era through the myriad natural ...
From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...
In 2017, Yiyun Li’s 16-year-old son, Vincent, died by suicide. Nearly seven years later, his younger brother, James, then 19, also took his own life. With her second memoir, Li examines the ...
“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. Nonfiction “True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer ...