Richard Smith: 18 books

The year is 2117. The United World Science Foundation has sanctioned a team of geologists to explore the remote minor planet known as Sedna. About one-half the diameter of Pluto, Sedna orbits twice as faraway from Earth as Pluto is, and at this distance, it receives only weak sunlight and is dark, cold,...

Little Church in the Wilderness is a novel that is both absorbing and inspirational. The story takes place in the 1870’s when a Catholic priest gifted with the ability to heal both body and soul is sent as a missionary to Upper Minnesota. After the Civil War, Father Todd Edward Bose is ordained...

One moment Annie Roszkowski is closing the bar at Sitka Lillie’s and sharing a cup of coffee with the last customer; the next moment she’s running naked across a barren Alaskan island pursued by three hunters and a pack of hounds. Running with her are two kidnapped prostitutes. They are the prey...

THE stories in this volume are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries which have been kept by me for some twenty years spent in travel and in sport in many lands—the last nine of them almost entirely in Japan, while collecting subjects of natural history for the British Museum; trawling...