13 best-selling nonfiction books like Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean

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Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

By: John N. Maclean

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It comes a gorgeous chronicle of…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. A World Lost

By: Wendell Berry

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Andy Catlett is nine years old when his Uncle Andrew is murdered and it destroys his sense of the o… read more

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2. Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

4.12

Format: 29 pages,

'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, explorati… read more

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  • westerns

3. The Daybreakers

By: Louis L'Amour

3.71

Format: 192 pages,

Orrin Sackett had to be pushed into a fight. But Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble. The night Tye s… read more

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  • westerns
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4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • history
  • nature
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5. The Maine Woods

By: Paul Theroux , Henry David Thoreau , Joseph J. Moldenhauer

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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6. Wild Animals I Have Known

By: Ernest Thompson Seton

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A stirring account of the lives of eight wild animals, including Lobo, the king of Currumpaw; Silve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

7. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more

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8. Young Men and Fire

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefight… read more

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9. A River Runs Through It

By: Norman Maclean , Barry Moser

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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10. Big Two-Hearted River

By: Ernest Hemingway

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Audio CD

Big two-hearted river -- A way you'll never be -- In another country. read more

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11. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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  • nature
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12. Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon

By: Monte Burke

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Funny, wistful, and wonderful." --Carl Hiaasen   "You will love this book." --Michael Keaton   "T… read more

Similar categories in Monte Burke's Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
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13. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

By: Timothy Egan

4.13

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

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14. The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An “excellent” ( The New York Times ) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide t… read more

Similar categories in David Coggins's The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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15. Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

By: John N. Maclean

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It comes a gorgeous chronicle of… read more

Similar categories in John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • westerns
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
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16. Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

By: John Gierach

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Housto… read more

Similar categories in John Gierach's Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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17. A Wild Idea

By: Jonathan Franklin

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
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18. MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls

By: Steve Rinella

4.32

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

* 6 hours * Gather around for campfire stories with the MeatEater crew as they share 16 harrowi… read more

Similar categories in Steve Rinella's MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • biography memoir
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19. All the Time in the World

By: John Gierach

4.41

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the answer to life’s most pressing problems through the joy of fly-fishing from master phi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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20. The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life

By: David Coggins

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisd… read more

Similar categories in David Coggins's The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life book and John N. Maclean's Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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21. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By: Dan Egan

4.34

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

5 best-selling history books like Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean

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Steven Rinella

3.50

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Timothy Egan

4.13

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John N. Maclean

4.09

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A Wild Idea

Jonathan Franklin

4.29

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The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing

Thomas McGuane

4.26

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Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Steven Rinella

4.42

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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

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Steven Rinella

3.50

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