Carrying the Fire Podcast

Carrying the Fire Podcast

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Carrying the Fire Podcast episodes

  • Awakening of American Indian Resistance with Peter Stark | Episode 1

    Peter Stark is an explorer, journalist and adventurer who has become one of America's foremost writers of historical nonfiction. From his mind-blowing stories of the intersection of adventure and disaster,  Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, to his best-seller Astoria, an account the ruthless and bloody attempt to establish the fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River,  Stark is a writer working at the very top of his game. Join Hal and Peter as they discuss his new book, The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance. It's a freewheeling conversation with detours into life, work, and how the inescapable tides of history are sweeping us all along, whether we know it or not. 


    Books by Peter Stark

    • The Last Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest and the Unconquered West

    • Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire

    • Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

    • At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Luyanda River of Mozambique

    • The Last Empty Places: A Journey Through Networkless America

      • Nine Years Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann

      • The Florida of the Inca by Garcilaso de la Vega

      • Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

      • The Stand by Stephen King

      • A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez

      • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

      • The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

      • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

      • The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

        • "Frozen Alive" (1997): A famous article by Peter Stark published in Outside magazine regarding the science of hypothermia.

          • https://www.outsideonline.com/2152131/freezing-death

          • Cabeza de Vaca’s Account: The primary source journals of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

            • https://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/account-of-cabeza-de-vaca/

            • The Old North Trail: An article by Peter Stark published in the Smithsonian Magazine 

              • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-old-north-trail-49911446/

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              About Carrying the Fire Podcast

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              Hosted by journalist and writer Hal Herring, the Carrying the Fire podcast features the voices of writers and thinkers, homesteaders and conservationists, explorers, historians and futurists-human beings carrying the fire of our oldest verities through these tumultuous times.