Peter Stark

Author's Bio

Correspondent Peter Stark is the author of The Last Empty Places (Ballantine Books). His wife, Amy Ragsdale, is writing a book about living abroad with children.

Family in Brazil

Home and Away

Peter Stark shares his amazing experiences living abroad in Brazil and traveling in South America for a year.

The Isles Have It

After 16 years of civil war, Mozambique is back in the bliss business, with 1,500 miles of Indian Ocean coastline, thriving coral reefs . . . and peace at hand

Let the Bad Times Roll

Adventure, big and small, is all about risk. The risk that things may go terribly wrong. That danger will finally cut off your credit and hit you with a hefty bill. That luck will flee the scene as...

The Tree Slayer

What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it.

Last Time Around

The author's father traveled the world, shipped out on the last commercial sailing voyage around Cape Horn, and handed down a legacy of adventure. But his risk-taking spirit had a dark side—and ...

A Trip is Born

The dream is a brand-new river route through a vast, primordial, wildlife-rich wonderland on the verge of environmental salvation. The reality is what happens when a small band of marginally...

The Sting of the Assassin

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, Peter Stark combines true life science with chilling scenarios of fatal hazards in the...

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