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Peter Heller

Peter Heller
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Peter Heller

Peter Heller is an award-winning adventure writer and long-time contributor to NPR. He is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and National Geographic Adventure and the author of Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He can be reached at www.peterheller.net.

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Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Kook
Nov 23, 2010
Kook will be released on August 20, 2010 in
Aug 20, 2010
Kook is now available in
Aug 20, 2010

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Blogcritics.org, May 10, 2013
...by Peter Heller was one of Oprahs 2012 books of the month. It belongs to that increasingly popular genre known as post-apocalyptic fiction which uses the crucible of a global catastrophe to...
WXEL, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
YubaNet, May 6, 2013
...- Gail Storey is not a hiker. But when her husband Porter resigns from his longtime job as the director of a hospice center in Texas to hike the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, she refuses to let him go alone—even though the...
SFX, May 2, 2013
...five stars in SFX‘s review) won out against a shortlist of Adrian Barnes’ Nod, Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker, Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars, Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312. Beckett now takes home a cheque for £2013, and...
Vail Daily, April 18, 2013
...?Heading out to Wonderful,? and ?The End of the World as We Know It?), and Denver-based author Peter Heller (?Hell or High Water,? ?The Whale Warriors,? ?Kook,? and ?The Dog Stars?). Books in Bloom is a unique opportunity to delve deeper into the writer's...
Equities.com, April 5, 2013
...Nod by Adrian Barnes, Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (pictured), The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, Intrusion by Ken MacLeod and 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. It seems telling that the dystopic is so much in evidence. Nod features a...
New York Review of Books, April 5, 2013
...s film Contagion (2011), in which a virus found in pigs and bats rapidly spreads around the world. Peter Heller’s 2012 novel The Dog Stars takes place after an influenza strain has killed 99.9 percent of humanity. In the films 28 Days Later (2002) and...
Blogcritics.org, May 10, 2013
...by Peter Heller was one of Oprahs 2012 books of the month. It belongs to that increasingly popular genre known as post-apocalyptic fiction which uses the crucible of a global catastrophe to...
WNIJ, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
Delmarva Public Radio, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
KTEP 88.5 FM, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
WRTI 90.1 FM, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
WXEL, May 6, 2013
...downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography. * Some of the language in the...
YubaNet, May 6, 2013
...- Gail Storey is not a hiker. But when her husband Porter resigns from his longtime job as the director of a hospice center in Texas to hike the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, she refuses to let him go alone—even though the...