THE LAST OF THE TRIBE: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, by Monte Reel. Scribner, 271 pp., $26. In the early fall of 1996, a team of Brazilian government workers descended into the ...

Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with “The Perfect Storm,” his riveting nonfiction account of the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew from Gloucester, Mass., which was adapted ...

The NewsHour continues our series on great summer reads with the latest from Oscar-nominated documentarian and “Perfect Storm” author Sebastian Junger. It’s called "Tribe: On Homecoming And Belonging.

In the early fall of 1996, a team of Brazilian government workers descended into the jungle of the Guapore River Valley, a tangled tract of Amazonia known to locals as the “Green Hell.” They ...

It's easy to imagine that before Glacier National Park was a park, it was an untouched, uninhabited wilderness. In reality, long before the first white person ever set foot in the park, it was used ...

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THE LAST MIGRATION (343 pp.)—Vincent Cronin—Dutton ($4.50). A fruitfull countrey, inhabited with pasturing people, which dwell in the Summer season upon mountains, and in Winter they remoove into the ...

Forty-five years after the publication of his first book (Technology: Process of Assessment and Choice), Laurence Tribe is preparing to release another book, tentatively titled Uncertain Justice (2014 ...

Ten years ago, productivity powerhouse Tim Ferriss published The 4-Hour Workweek, a guide to streamlining (and outsourcing) work activities that became an international bestseller. His latest book, ...