WELCOME

Welcome to the blog for www.schneiderbooks.com, a place for any thoughts, comments, queries about any of my books, or published articles. Plus, there's one movie of me in a surf kayak on a good day in September.

Links to reviews of all three books, Brutal Journey, The Adirondacks, and The Enduring Shore, as well as to many articles I've written in the past few years for the New York Times can be found at www.schneiderbooks.com. Please visit it using the links to the right.

Also feel free to contribute your own stories and pictures about the Adirondacks, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, or crossing North America naked and barefoot in the 16th century.

Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America

Published by Henry Holt, NYC, 2006, Paperback by Owl Books, 2007

My most recent book, Brutal Journey, is just out in paperback with a new cover and a new subtitle: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America.

It was an adventure to research and write and I'm happy to say it got great reviews all over the country. You can find links to them at www.schneiderbooks.com. Click the link on the right to go back to schneiderbooks.com.

Soon it will be available in Spanish!

The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

Published by Henry Holt, NYC, 2000, Paperback by Owl Books, 2001

In some ways the Enduring shore was the most fun book of the three to write.

Not only is the history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod rich with adventure and fun, but I managed to convince my editor that in order to do my home region justice I had to get in a sea kayak and explore the entire coast.

That's nice work if you can get it.

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness

Published by Henry Holt, NYC, 1997. (A New York Times Notable book of the Year) Paperback by Owl Books, 1998.

I still love this book, and not just because it was my first one and got great reviews. The Adirondacks--mountains, rivers and lakes--are such a magnificent place, who wouldn't want the chance to delve into them deeply. The park, flawed as it is, is such an important environmental achievement, mixing wilderness and "civilization" in equal parts. It gives a person hope just to breath in that air up there.

I was lucky enough to get back to the Adirondacks recently for the New York Times to canoe a couple of stretches I missed the first fifty times I went there. There's a link to the story I wrote at www.schneiderbooks.com on the recent journalism page.