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Animal tales, weather wisdom and mountain mischief for all ages

Welcome to the website of New Hampshire author Eric Pinder. To find books, interviews, humorous essays, recommended reading, travel tips and more, please visit the annotated sitemap.

Weather aficionados can debate the merits of Celsius vs Fahrenheit, find out what ice storms and The Electric Company have in common, groan at some bad puns, read about the childhood of legendary meteorologist Don Kent and try to ace a fun but deceptively easy quiz.

Come take a literary field trip to the icy outpost where Eric lived and worked for seven years. His experiences on the foggy, windswept summit of Mount Washington inspired several books, including his first children’s book, Cat in the Clouds.

News & Upcoming Events: Join Eric at the Kingston NH Library on Saturday, November 20 at 1 pm. He’ll be signing books and speaking about his adventures in the world’s worst weather. Read a new interview with Eric about how to make a living as a writer and his forthcoming children’s book If All of the Animals Came Inside.

Katahdin’s Knife Edge

Author Gary Nahban calls nature writing “going out into the boonies and interviewing plants” in the excellent (and sadly out of print) anthology Words from the Land. See this annotated list of the top ten nature writing books, and find out why you shouldn’t read Walden until you’re 30. Eric Pinder’s own book of nature writing, North to Katahdin, follows Thoreau’s footsteps to ask the question, “Why do we like to hike?”

Nature writing about mountains & weather, from New England to Antarctica

Speaking of nature writing, J.R.R. Tolkien spent so much time describing trees and mushrooms that he could have called his epic A Hiker’s Guide to the Shire. Click here for

Cycling’s Greatest Misadventures and other anthologies

Eric Pinder’s reviews and musings about books that inspired or intrigued him. It’s an eccentric list ranging from Tolkien to Ken Grimwood’s fascinating novel Replay to The Winds of War.

Volcanoes, geysers and glaciers await travelers to Iceland (and don’t forget to try the rotten shark). For icy adventures closer to home, read Into Deep Slush, an excerpt from Tying Down the Wind. Discover what happens when you make high-altitude pizza right before an alpine search-and-rescue operation. Climb above timberline into the realm of Pamola, who once terrified Henry David Thoreau, and revisit the “forever wild” setting of Donn Fendler’s classic children’s book Lost on a Mountain in Maine.

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