Jason Wilson: 41 books
Cry Like a Man
Fighting for Freedom from Emotional Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
As a leader in teaching, training, and transforming boys in Detroit, Jason Wilson shares his own story of discovering what it means to “be a man” in this life-changing memoir.
His grandfather’s lynching in the deep South, the murders of his two older brothers, and his verbally harsh and...
Living in the Sound of the Wind
A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never returned to Argentina.
Wilson unravels Hudson?s English...
Boozehound
On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
While some may wonder, “Does the world really need another flavored vodka?” no one answers this question quite so memorably as spirits writer and raconteur Jason Wilson does in Boozehound. (By the way, the short answer is no.) A unique blend of travelogue, spirits history, and recipe collection,...
by Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”
These words, inseparably...
Godforsaken Grapes
A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss.
Stemming from...
The Cider Revival
Dispatches from the Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Cider is having a major moment, and The Cider Revival charts its history, resurgence, and a year with the vanguard makers of heritage cider
Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition...
by Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco--the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world--the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces, and forts. The clash between Atahualpa,...
A Companion to Pablo Neruda
Evaluating Neruda's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and...
The Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club
Official Centennial Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Published in partnership with the Toronto Maple Leafs and officially licensed by the NHL, this is the one and only official Toronto Maple Leafs Centennial publication!
The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the most storied franchises in all of sport and without question -- the most recognized...
J.P. Bickell
The Life, the Leafs, and the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists...
by Alexander Humboldt, Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed...
Soldiers of Song
The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story.
Lucky soldiers...
by Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Jay's life took a tragic turn for the worse after seeking revenge on his uncle for destroying his sister's sexual innocence. Spilling his uncle's blood was the defining moment of the death of Jay's compassion for humanity and birth of his murderous rage. While serving time in juvenile prison for...
Seeking Spirits
The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
TV's popular Ghost Hunters reveal all-new, never-before-told stories from their spooky early investigations!
For the first time ever, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S.), share their most memorable and spine-tingling early cases -- none of which...