Books by Dean King
Guardians of the Valley
John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite
The untold true story of the legendary duo who fought the establishment, saved Yosemite, and created a popular uprising for the environment. As Muir, the California explorer and polymath, and Johnson, the New York City editor and lobbyist, fearlessly battled industrial excess to save the sequoias and the mountains, they lay down the roadmap for future generations of green combatants. “The battle for conservation must go on endlessly,” Muir wrote. “It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong.”
The Feud
The Hatfields & McCoys: The True Story
Drawing on years of original research, including the discovery of previously lost and ignored evidence and interviews with surviving relatives of both families, this rip-roaring narrative packed with brutal murders, reckless affairs, mercenaries, detectives, and the long shadow of the Civil War is an unvarnished and vastly entertaining work of history.
Unbound
A True Story of War, Love and Survival
In 1934, Mao Zedong led 86,000 Red Army soldiers away from their homes in southeastern China, fleeing the forces of Chiang Kaishek in what became known as the Long March. One year, 4,000 miles, and countless battles later, fewer than 5,000 were left. Through the eyes of the thirty resilient women who accompanied this army of men, Unbound tells the story of one of history’s most epic military marches, of amazing physical and psychological hardship, of bonds formed under fire, of loss and redemption.
Skeletons on the Zahara
A True Story of Survival
A national bestseller, Skeletons on the Zahara is an account of the shipwreck of the Connecticut merchant brig Commerce on the west coast of Africa in 1815. After being enslaved by Arab nomads on the Sahara, half of the crew, led by Captain James Riley, journey 800 miles across some of the harshest terrain on earth and past the fierce tribes of the Atlas foothills to Mogador (now Essaouira), where they are ransomed.
Patrick O’Brian
A Life Revealed
A biography of the enigmatic author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, who changed his name in 1945 after serving in British intelligence during WWII, thus burying a failed marriage and a precocious writing career as a novelist. O’Brian went on to write arguably the most profound fiction about male friendship in the English language. He was a biographer of Picasso and a translator of Simone de Beauvoir.
Companion Books to Patrick O’Brian’s
Aubrey-Maturin Novels
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A Sea of Words
A Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales
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Harbors and High Seas
An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels
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Every Man Will Do His Duty
An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson, 1793-1815