Peter Riva

Peter Riva was a pure math major at college but later went to UCLA Film School and then to the BBC as an Apprentice. He was the creator and producer of over 78 hours of primetime wildlife television, spent a ton of time in East Africa and parts of North and Central Africa, co-founded a film history museum, and was the program manager for the first global circum-navigation atmospheric flight (Voyager; 1986).

He has worked for more than 30 years with the leaders in aerospace and space exploration as well as environmental causes with the UN, USA and USSR. He also helped manage and create several international historic events (the memorabilia of which are on permanent display in national institutions in America, Germany, and France as well as touring internationally).

Born and raised in New York City, London, and Switzerland, Mr. Riva moved some years ago and loves where he lives now best of all: Gila, New Mexico.

Book Reviews by Peter Riva

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“[The] concept of past and present ‘bridging’ together, is unveiled in a page-turning romp—a discovery of love, place, and meaning.”

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“Puntí is clever without ever being saccharine, literary in choice of phrase without ever being obtuse—always a joy to read.”

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“[W]hat the author does is make a cohesive thesis here and amend, bolster, ratify it with the intelligence and findings of others. The whole is his, and his alone.

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“the peace and harmony depicted by excellent images of these manufactured gardens by human design and gardeners’ hands remain a beauty to experience, a tranquility to revel in, and not leas

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“a blinding work of narrative fact that will amaze, enthrall, and, yes, cause every reader to shed tears for the residue of suffering that Chernobyl has left to all humanity.”

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“The varied uses for an instant pot were always a surprise and, whether cooking meat or vegetables, every time the recipes we tried resulted in restaurant grade food, prepared in minutes.”

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“Absurdly compelling, packing a double barrel blast . . .”

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“Continuity for parents, pleasure for kids, totally satisfies . . .”

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“A wonderful, talented, slice of Africa, an Africa fast receding . . .”

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“An excellent, if terrifying, must-read . . .”

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Anne Hillerman’s Song of the Lion follows a path well trodden in cultural police procedurals.

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