North Point Press imprint: 95 books
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry...
Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years,...
The Whale and the Supercomputer
On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest
A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea--as ice that should...
Access All Areas
Selected Writings 1990-2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers
In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history,...
The Mourner's Dance
What We Do When People Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures...
Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth...
Stolen Figs
And Other Adventures in Calabria
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
An effortlessly artful blend of travel book, memoir, and affectionate portrait of a people
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy—a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during the scorching summers while the sea crashes against the cliffs...
The Brothers Karamazov
A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2002
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the...
New Poems, 1908
The Other Part
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In 1984 Edward Snow won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets for the first volume of these translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's watershed work, NEW POEMS, 1907. His work was praised for the resonance of the English and its faithfulness to the density and meaning...
Freud and Yoga
Two Philosophies of Mind Compared
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Lessons from a great yoga master and an eminent psychoanalyst that explore what psychotherapy and yoga philosophy have in common
Yoga philosophy and Freud's revolutionary approach to psychology could not have been developed in more different times, places, or cultural conditions. And yet these...
Christopher and His Kind
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life in the States.
The...
Bangkok Days
A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS
Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke...
In Fond Remembrance of Me
A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling,...