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Early Praise for THE LAST WINTER

“From its gripping opening pages to its haunting conclusion, Porter Fox’s The Last Winter is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. Yet this isn’t a dry, doleful book. Instead, it’s filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from […]

THE LAST WINTER

November 2, 2021 (Little, Brown) A blend of narrative travelogue, history, and climatology set against the end of ice, snow, and winter as we know it. From the publisher: As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of […]

Paperback Release June 1

Keep an eye out for Northland in paperback! Now with a slick, blue cover… I will be reading in Bar Harbor May 28 at 7pm and L.L. Bean in Freeport on June 1 at 3pm. See you there…

New Book Tour Dates

Join Us at a NORTHLAND Event: Wednesday, Sept 26. 7:00 PM talk/signing MAGERS AND QUINN 3038 Hennepin Ave. S Minneapolis, MN 55408 Link: (directions) https://www.magersandquinn.com/index.php?main_page=help#maps Thursday, September 27, 7:00 PM talk/signing ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 Link: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/porter-fox Friday-Sunday, September 28-30 HARBOR SPRINGS […]

September Readings in Maine

Porter Fox to present NORTHLAND: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border A free discussion and reception at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland WHEN: Thursday, September 6, 6-9:00 p.m. WHERE: Rising Tide Brewing Company, 103 Fox Street, Portland Please join NRCM Rising at Rising Tide Brewing Company for a special evening with outdoor and […]

NORTHLAND in the News

It’s been a busy month for NORTHLAND… NPR Marketplace, author interview: https://www.marketplace.org/2018/07/05/business/big-book/america-northern-border-crossing-business NPR Here & Now, author interview: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/07/03/us-canada-border-northland The New York Times Book Review, interview: The New York Times, author op-ed The New York Times Travel Section Maine Public Radio, interview http://www.mainepublic.org/post/maine-author-explores-changing-american-border-canada#stream/0 […]

NORTHLAND Is Released

The story of America’s forgotten border is officially out July 3. NORTHLAND was chosen as Amazon’s Book of the Month in Nonfiction, Biography and History. Get your copy here: Greenlight Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Books-a-Million, iBookstore

First NORTHLAND Excerpts Out

The first excerpts of NORTHLAND are out. See a piece from Montana’s Medicine Line in Outside Magazine here. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border (available for preorder now) offers searing portraits of the people and places that live on the line between the United States and Canada. Author […]

NORTHLAND Gets Starred Kirkus Review

The southern border of the United States gets all the attention, but it’s barely half as long as the northern border; its story is “a tale of early mistakes, and more than two centuries of fixes.” Fox (Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow, 2013), a Maine […]

OUTSIDE Review of Best New Expedition Books

North America was not the land of milk and honey that early explorers sought. It was a rocky, cold, foreboding obstacle blocking the way to the riches of Asia. The Vikings, Hernán Cortés, Juan de Fuca, Martin Frobisher, Sir Francis Drake, and virtually every captain dispatched across the pond by […]