In this compilation of short stories and poetry centered on rivers, mountains, and wild locations of great natural beauty, novelist and avid outdoorsman Alan Pilkington shares the memories of the unforgettable times he spent as a young man on the banks of a mountain river outside of Melbourne, Australia.

Pilkington was born into a family where the men went to the mountains and fished for trout in the tumbling streams of the southern parts of Australia's Great Dividing Range. Cultivating a lifelong love aff air with the outdoors through his many stays in cabins built by successive family generations, he learned about the bush and its creatures while gaining a deep appreciation for the value of wilderness. Pilkington shares the journal entries, stories, and poems he composed while on fly-fishing and hunting adventures in Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania—some serious, some lighthearted—all with a focus on rivers and how they provide inner-peace to all who seek it through them.

Rivers of My Memory will touch anyone with a passion for the wilderness and who have rivers happily entwined in their memories.

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ISBN (Hardcover) 9-781440-100468 US$20.95
ISBN (Softcover) 9-781440-100444 US$10.95

In the early 1920s, a young Australian named Rex Rivington abandons his education and leaves his comfortable family home in Melbourne to lead a colourful, but directionless life in the outback. He eventually recognizes his ambition to be a medical doctor, and he rejects his itinerant life to resume his education.

Rex wins it big in a poker game with a four of diamonds, enabling him to bankroll his education. He finishes medical school, but his plan to further his education and study surgery in Scotland is thwarted by the Second World War. Adventure and tragedy dominate his wartime postings in remote outback towns in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and he eventually settles into a country practice in Victoria, becoming a much loved country doctor.

Four of Diamonds: An Australian’s Journey is a moving story of triumph and tragedy in a time of transition in Australia, as well as a saga of one man’s dedication to his dream.

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ISBN (Hardcover): 0-595-67754-1 $26.95
ISBN (Paperback): 0-595-39904-5 $16.95

Political intrigue and environmental ethics collide in American Serengeti when a tough, ambitious and calculating energy consultant tries to outwit a rising environmental prophet and finds herself joining his fight to save the fragile beauty of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Molly Marlowe is going places. Comfortable in her position as a renowned energy expert, she thinks nothing of staring down chauvinist bosses and powerful politicians alike. But when a routine trip to Congress throws her into the path of Joe Wardrop, an equally brilliant and charismatic environmental activist, Molly’s world is turned upside down when she agrees to leave the comfort of her corporate city life for the untamed beauty of Alaska. With Joe’s help, Molly chooses to save the peaceful and fragile serenity of this American Serengeti. But she cannot outrun the brutality of her past life – she must act quickly before she becomes a casualty of the war between big business and Mother Nature.

Spanning the streets of Manhattan and the vast landscapes of the Alaskan wilderness, American Serengeti is a taut, timely political thriller that both entertains and enlightens.

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ISBN (Hardcover): 1-59457-553-3 $29.95
ISBN (Paperback): 1-594-57446-4 $17.99