Dan Szczesny

" ... an exploration of one of New Hampshire's least known mountain lists, the 52 With a View. It's a hiking story unlike any other, as the author takes on the task of turning a determined, urban elementary child into an experienced back-woods hiker, and in the process finds that sometimes the most important lessons are the ones that she teaches him. [This is] a journey and a mediation on the transformative power of friendship, commitment and the...

"When Dan Szczesny was researching and writing his award-winning book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, it seemed that everyone had a story to tell about New England’s highest peak; in fact, there were just too many tales to fit in one book. Stories from the White Mountain is a collection of essays that didn’t quite fit, that were reprinted elsewhere, or that originally appeared in a condensed version. You’ll...

Sing, and Other Short Stories is a collection of ten tales from travel and adventure writer Dan Szczesny. It is his first collection of short stories. From 1930s South Dakota where one of the last cowboys struggles to find meaning in a modern world to the Alaskan tundra where searchers race against time to find the pilot of a missing plane before the grizzlies do, Sing is an ode to common people who are forced to make a stand. Szczesny’s flawed...

Through lyrical poems and narrative prose, travel writer and journalist Dan Szczesny (The Nepal Chronicles and Mosquito Rain: Alaskan Travel Essays) turns his adventurer's eye toward a most personal and challenging subject - a trip to India to introduce his then ten-month-old daughter to her great grandmother. During his family's stay in Northern India, Szczesny, along with his wife and daughter, explores the glorious sugar cane fields, takes a memorable...

Whether haunting the urban hole-in-the-wall for leads, getting lost in Northern New England's vast forests, or figuring out whose body is frozen in the snow, these thirteen fictional tales from the front lines of news reporting-written in many cases by the reporters and editors themselves-will whisk the reader to all parts of the region in a sometimes frantic and always tense search for the big scoop. The stories infuse and cover every pulpy genre,...