New Releases by Wallace Stegner

People are everywhere and in trouble whatever they are. It is not only amenity , not only quality of living or supply of raw materials or open space that we must fight for. There is even more at stake now - survival of this civilization, perhaps even survival of the living world. And it is later than we think.

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devotoʹs monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

The story of a young man grown old in war, and of his quest for peace with himself and the world.