The High Sierra: A Love Story
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth…
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1. On Trails: An Exploration
By: Robert Moor
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that … read more
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- history
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"In walking, we acquire more of less."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"Complete freedom is not what a trail offers. Quite the opposite; a trail is a tactful reduction of options."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
"What unites the wisest trails, I have found, is a balance of three values: durability, efficiency, and flexibility."-Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
2. Practice of the Wild
By: Gary Snyder
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Gary Snyder has been a major cultural force in America for five decades. Future readers will come t… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
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3. The Land of Little Rain
By: Terry Tempest Williams , Mary Hunter Austin
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broke… read more
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- nature
- history
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- nonfiction
- environment
4. 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
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5. My First Summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foo… read more
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7. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
8. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- audiobook
- nature
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
9. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
12. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
By: Barry Lopez
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- environment
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13. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
14. The High Sierra: A Love Story
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- biography
- memoir
- travel
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
15. Miracle Country
By: Kendra Atleework
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
16. Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
By: Heather Hansman
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present a… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- environment
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- science
17. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail
By: Barney Scout Mann
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
18. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
By: Manjula Martin
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more
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- history
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- environment
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- science
19. Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
By: Dean King
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets … read more
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- history
- biography
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
20. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
By: Mark Arax
4.43
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more
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- history
- memoir
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21. The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource
By: Obi Kaufmann
4.10
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas , turns his artful yet analytical a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- environment
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