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Across Glacier
On Foot Through America’s
Most Glorious National Park
The Book Alliance
Forthcoming April 6, 2027
A rollicking traverse of Glacier National Park,
deliciously funny and stuffed with wonder.
With sparkling wit and irrepressible charm, Steve Hendricks takes us on a trek into the heart of Glacier National Park, a land of chiseled summits, ravishing waterfalls, capering mountain goats, and fearsome grizzly bears. Joining him on his 250-mile adventure is his sensationally unfit and hilarious friend Zeke, whose tastes run more to sofas and Pringles than to tents and mosquitoes. As the two wayfarers piece together an unlikely friendship, Hendricks deftly shows us the quirky characters and lively history, the lovable moose and menacing mountain lions, the handsome old lodges and exquisite ecology that make Glacier one of America’s most beloved national parks—and make Across Glacier the most amiable of page-turners.
“With this coruscating book, Steve Hendricks announces himself as the next bright voice in a merry-eyed, wild-haired, razor-tongued American literary tradition stretching from Mark Twain to Edward Abbey and Tony Horwitz. If you’ve lately found yourself growing a bit ‘grim about the mouth,’ these adventures in the land of glaciers and grizzlies will put a smile on your face and a glint of wonder in your eye.”
Robert Moor
Bestselling author of On Trails and In Trees
“I enjoyed the hell out of this bewitching book. It’s at once a hilarious odd-couple saga and a portrait of Glacier so thorough, it really should be packaged with bear spray and gorp. What’s perhaps most endearing about Hendricks’s tale isn’t his obvious love for the park but his charming disdain for those who don’t treat it with the reverence he wants all of us to feel for it.”
Patrick Hutchison
Bestselling author of CABIN
“Steve Hendricks is as adventurous on the page as he is on foot. In the tradition of Kevin Fedarko’s A Walk in the Park and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, he covers an impressive amount of ground, literally and metaphorically, tromping the hard way over primeval country. And what a landscape it is! Move over, Yellowstone and Yosemite. Hendricks’s wild and winsome ode just may convince you that Glacier is the most captivating, and flat out the most gorgeous, of our national parks.”
Hampton Sides
Bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and The Wide Wide Sea
“With a naturalist’s eye and a journalist’s ear, Steve Hendricks makes a splendidly perceptive guide through one of the world’s last best places. Whether you’re an occasional visitor or a Glacier fanatic, Across Glacier has something for everyone. Wholeheartedly recommended!”
—Nate Blakeslee
author of American Wolf
Specifications
(Metadata)
TITLE Across Glacier: On Foot Through America’s Most Glorious National Park
AUTHOR Steve Hendricks
PUBLICATION DATE April 6, 2027
PUBLISHER The Book Alliance
BINDING Hardcover (jacketed) and Ebook
TRIM 6” x 9”
PAGES 420
PRICE Hardcover: $34.00 USD / $47.00 CAD · Ebook: $30.00 USD / $41.00 CAD
ISBNs Hardcover: 979-8-9977310-0-7 · Ebook: 979-8-9977310-1-4
LCCN 2026950510
SHELF Travel Literature / Nature
DISTRIBUTION Ingram or direct from distributor Itasca Books [Link coming Oct. 2026]
TERMS Standard discount, returnable
ARCs Epub on Edelweiss [Link coming Oct. 2026]
The Oldest Cure in the World
Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
Abrams Press, 2022
The fascinating history and counterintuitive science of
how fasting, wisely done, makes us healthier.
When should we eat, and when should we not?
The answers to these simple questions, as journalist Steve Hendricks shows in his irresistibly readable exploration of fasting, are not at all what you might expect. Stop eating for long enough, and you’ll set in motion cellular repairs that may slow aging as well as prevent and reverse a variety of diseases, including diabetes and hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis and epilepsy, asthma and schizophrenia, and much more. Astoundingly, fasting has even been proven to make chemotherapy better at killing cancer while protecting patients from the worst of chemo’s side effects.
Hendricks also takes us on a tour of the surprisingly expansive history of fasting, a chronicle as rich in telling detail as it is comprehensive in its scope, from the ancient Chinese woodcarver who fasted to still his mind and “to forget I have four limbs,” to the unlikely nineteenth-century doctor whose stupendous forty-day fast on a New York stage caused a stir around the world and inaugurated the modern era of therapeutic fasting that we’re still living in.
Threaded throughout are Hendricks’s own adventures in fasting, by turns playful and moving. One of these, his fast of twenty days, helped launch the recent wave of interest in fasting when an account of it was first published in 2012. The lasting achievement of The Oldest Cure in the World is to guide us through a terrain we thought we knew well—our own bodies and when to feed them—but whose secrets we’re only beginning to unlock, with great promise for health and longevity.
In addition to the North American and UK paper, ebook, and audiobook editions (published in 2022), a Spanish edition, La cura más antigua del mundo, (published in 2023) is available from Gaia Ediciones.
. . .
“An illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history—and myriad health benefits—of fasting. . . . Mr. Hendricks, a freelance reporter, is a deft stylist (fatty foods are ‘coronary and gastric assailants’; the marketing labels for a health fad are ‘linguistic casseroles’), and he excels at describing the experience of going without food.”
“Hendricks’s book is a remarkable blend of authoritative history, illuminating science, and endearing storytelling. In The Oldest Cure in the World, Hendricks gives us the wonders of fasting—too long neglected by doctors and scientists, too often misunderstood by most of us, yet so potent a therapy—with marvelous clarity, page-turning crispness, and appealing humanity.”
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
“Fasting, long regarded as being ‘on the wrong side of respectability,’ deserves serious consideration as a medical treatment, argues journalist Hendricks (The Unquiet Grave) in this thought-provoking survey. Hendricks writes that the practice has been shown to help with illnesses as varied as asthma, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, and migraines. But it’s ‘simply too counterintuitive to think not eating could make you healthier,’ and the medical community has yet to embrace it. That’s a mistake, Hendricks insists: it’s cheaper than drugs and has fewer side effects, and he touts it as an ‘astoundingly and variously useful’ method that’s been hiding in plain sight for millennia. The author weaves a fascinating personal narrative (fasting helped his idiopathic hypersomnia) with a comprehensive history of the practice, from prehistoric humans who fasted from necessity up to modern-day clinics that use it. While enthusiastic, Hendricks is careful not to oversell fasting’s benefits (there’s much it ‘cannot do, no matter how many incautious boosters say otherwise’), and he pulls no punches when highlighting flaws in research, as with studies that emphasize ‘profit rather than health.’ His levelheaded, irreverent approach and sharp reporting set the book apart. The result is a winning mix of captivating storytelling and fascinating science.”
“Steve Hendricks set himself the Herculean task of weaving together the long history and deep science of fasting with his own revealing self-experiments—and has succeeded brilliantly in turning out a captivating tale. The Oldest Cure in the World is an engrossing tour de force and offers a bona fide strategy for slowing the aging process.”
#1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Blue Zones
“Few people know that science has shown fasting is a key that unlocks ancient restorative systems and mobilizes some of the body’s most powerful regenerative mechanisms. In The Oldest Cure in the World, Steve Hendricks proves to be a master of explaining the multitude of benefits that various kinds of fasting can unleash. Fasting is a core part of my integrative cardiology practice. This book is a must read for those looking for a long healthspan.”
Author of Your Whole Heart Solution
The Unquiet Grave
The FBI and the Struggle
for the Soul of Indian Country
Da Capo Press, 2006
The true saga of how the FBI sabotaged the Indian rights movement of the 1970s and how the battered movement consumed itself.
One of the 100 best books of 2006.
Publishers Weekly
“Best of the Literary Crop”: one of 12 recommended nonfiction books for 2006.
Salt Lake Tribune
One of 36 recommended nonfiction reads for 2006.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One of 100 noteworthy books for 2006.
Kansas City Star
“A detailed, exhaustive investigative account [from] the indefatigable Hendricks. . . . An eye-opening, often shocking narrative fueled by the author’s outrage.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Shocking . . . In its sweep, [The Unquiet Grave] is about the slow death of American Indian tribes across the United States, abetted by racist FBI agents, corrupt politicians, greedy lawyers and, to a shameful extent, many Indians themselves.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The Unquiet Grave, a tautly written exposé, reads like a detective novel. . . . The abuses [are] disturbingly detailed.”
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
“This revelatory book is investigative journalism at its gutsiest, at its noblest. It is a documented portrait of the FBI as an un-American agency in its shafting of Native Americans. Must reading for anybody interested in our buried passages of American history.”
Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
Hope Dies Last and The Good War
“An impressive and important book, thoroughly researched and very well written.”
Peter Matthiessen, National Book Award–winning
author of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
“An excellent book that reopens the wounds of Wounded Knee—and that provides important new information for readers of Peter Matthiessen’s long-suppressed In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. . . . A blistering, important work.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Hendricks’s swift narrative is riddled with judicial travesties, coverups, vigilantism, COINTELPRO-style tactics, mounting paranoia and lawlessness on both sides. . . . Hendricks is careful throughout this harsh, heart-thumping account never to lose sight of the larger context.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The Unquiet Grave is a riveting anti-detective story in which the detectives—the FBI—are themselves investigated and their violations of the basic rights of Native Americans exposed. Few people know about this disturbing episode in our country’s recent past, but many should and will, thanks to Steve Hendricks’s fascinating book.”
Howard Zinn, author of
A People’s History of the United States
“With passion and elegance, Steve Hendricks has unearthed an ugly chapter in the FBI’s abusive history. Our hearts have been buried at Wounded Knee long enough. Dig ’em up and bury the FBI instead. Read this book.”
Jim Hightower, author of
Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush
A Cure for Long COVID?
A Struggle with Viral Fallout,
a Fast to Reverse It, and
the Science of Fasting to Heal
2024
An extended essay, published as a free ebook, on the possibility of fasting to reverse long COVID and other post-viral syndromes.
Doctors at the world’s largest fasting clinic have reported in a peer-reviewed journal that when their patients with long COVID fasted, their symptoms reversed. I look at the science of how fasting reverses similar diseases and why it might help post-viral sufferers. I also relate my own harrowing struggle with viral fallout and the fast that, I believe, reversed my symptoms. Download the free ebook here.
A Kidnapping in Milan
The CIA on Trial
W. W. Norton & Co., 2010
The CIA’s brazen abduction of a radical imam on the streets of Milan and the struggle of an Italian magistrate to bring the American kidnappers to trial.
A “real-life thriller [with] many well-drawn characters . . . skillfully crafted, highly disturbing.”
Chicago Tribune
“Steve Hendricks is a gifted writer as well as a dogged sleuth, a combination that turns this account—a journey through some of the darker mazes of the war on terror—into one of those rarities: an important story, excellently told.”
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer
and author of The Fall of Baghdad
“Exceptionally well written and deeply reported—a gripping novel-like book that brilliantly reconstructs one of the darker episodes of the ‘war on terror.’ ”
Peter Bergen, CNN national security
analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.
“[A]n utterly fascinating account . . . This is a how-not-to book on tradecraft that should be read and heeded.”
Washington Times
Book club selection.
Vanity Fair’s Hot Type
US News & World Report’s Political Book Club
“If the first half of the book carries all the insider tradecraft and shifting alliances of a John le Carré spy novel, the second half of the book becomes a script for a pilot episode of ‘Law & Order: Milan’. . . . Much like le Carré, Hendricks builds his plot through a combination of biographies of multiple characters and cultural histories of multiple organizations. . . . before allowing them to clash in carefully rendered scenes of intense action. In less confident hands, these biographical and historical accounts might grow tedious, but each page carries enough surprising fact and artful phrase to carry the reader forward.”
Chapter16.org
“Hendricks’ writing is propulsive, even when he backtracks into historical footnotes to provide a well-rounded purview, and voraciously readable in a Graham Greene-ish sort of way. . . . A Kidnapping in Milan is white-knuckle intrigue, exemplary journalism and capricious history disguised as yet another true-crime spy tale. Certain sections are darkly funny, others understatedly gut-wrenching.”
Missoula Independent
“Hendricks knows the United States and Italy and how to write about one for readers in the other. His remarks on Italian culture are outdone only by his background on Muslim terrorism, his account of who this kidnapping victim was, and the inclusion of dialogue picked up by Italian wiretaps of terrorism suspects’ private conversations. But just as terrific reading are Hendricks’ histories of the practice of rendition, of the use of torture, of U.S.-Italian relations, of domestic Italian terrorism, and of modern Egypt. . . . The torture [Abu Omar] received is described in all of its almost unbearable detail, [but] believe it or not, most of this book is enjoyable.”
Firedoglake.com
“Hendricks combines journalistic clarity with the structure of a detective novel in Kidnapping, giving his book the urgency of a modern thriller, all the more striking for its cold reality. The book is well-researched . . . but Kidnapping never reads as a dry recitation of facts or a ponderous series of analyses. . . . Guiding the narrative is a refined sense of moral outrage against the idea that dark deeds done in the dark make our world somehow safer.”
Biblioklept.org
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