Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
By: Amy Irvine
4.01
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty this fall, and its iconic autho…
Want to Read $ 6.49"By nature, we are a cabal."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
"By nature, we are a cabal."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
If you liked the nonfiction plot in Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness by Amy Irvine , here is a list of 20 books like this:
1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
Want to Read $ 9.17Similar categories in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- environment
- nature
- adventure
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
2. True North
By: Jim Harrison
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the dam… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jim Harrison's True North book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
3. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
By: David Owen
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes The Colorado … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Owen's Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
4. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
5. All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
By: David Gessner
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all ov… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Gessner's All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
6. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
7. The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
By: Tommy Caldwell
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tommy Caldwell's The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- outdoors
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
8. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
By: Richard L. Bushman
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard L. Bushman's Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
9. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- outdoors
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
10. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
11. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
12. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Other Stories book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
13. Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
By: Craig Childs
3.75
Format: 160 pages, ebook
To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a vi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Craig Childs's Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
14. The Last Season
By: Eric Blehm
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eric Blehm's The Last Season book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
15. Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imag… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
16. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
By: Ellen Meloy
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turqu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ellen Meloy's The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
17. Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
By: Jon Krakauer , David Roberts
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Finding Everett Ruessby David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer,is the definitive biography … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jon Krakauer's Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
18. The Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nature
- animals
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- environment
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf
19. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
Want to Read $ 9.17Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- adventure
20. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
21. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.17
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
22. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
By: Brian Doyle
4.62
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From a "born storyteller" ( Seattle Times ), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays inv… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Brian Doyle's One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
"Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, l…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
"So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not c…"-Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
23. Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail
By: Heather Anish Anderson
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail i… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Heather Anish Anderson's Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- memoir
- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- environment
- nature
24. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
25. That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
By: Mark Kenyon
4.10
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Mark Kenyon's That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- outdoors
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"There are some wild places across our nation's public lands that physically move you, creating a tightening in the chest, a loss of breath, or a tingling along the spine."-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"It was easy to see what Bundy and anti-public-land politicians really wanted: for public lands to be given to certain people. People who want land for their own gains--to mine it, graze it, drill it,…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an even…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
"As much as I love hiking and hunting and fishing and camping, I might love the meals that follow just as much. The post-adventure meal is akin to a religious experience. It just cannot be beat. Every…"-Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
26. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
By: Amy Irvine
4.01
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty this fall, and its iconic autho… read more
Want to Read $ 6.49Similar categories in Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- memoir
- adventure
- animals
- wilderness
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- outdoors
- environment
- nature
"By nature, we are a cabal."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
27. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- animals
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
28. The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
By: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
4.36
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut." —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In T… read more
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Stacie Shannon Denetsosie's The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
29. The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his … read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Kenn Kaufman's The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- environment
- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
30. Considering the Cross: How Calvary Connects Us with Christ
By: John Hilton III
4.63
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This study of the cross in the restored gospel is a must-read!" Robert L. Millet, best-selling au… read more
Want to Read $ 17.49Similar categories in John Hilton III's Considering the Cross: How Calvary Connects Us with Christ book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nonfiction
31. Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place
By: Pam Houston
4.28
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Co… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Pam Houston's Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place book and Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
