Seasons: Desert Sketches
By: Ellen Meloy
4.38
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NP…
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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
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- environment
- nature
"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. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- nature
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
By: Craig Childs
3.72
Format: None pages,
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating t… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
4. 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
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- westerns
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
5. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
6. The Secret Knowledge of Water
By: Craig Childs
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Features: Specifications: Pages: 304 ISBN-13: Publisher: Back Bay Books Cover: Paperback read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
7. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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8. 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
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9. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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10. Encounters with the Archdruid
By: John McPhee
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a … read more
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11. 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
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
12. Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
By: Craig Childs
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"One of the more flexible words in the English language, art is defined as a human creative skill, doing something as a result of knowledge and practice. It is the mind's eye rendered in visual form."-Craig Childs, Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
13. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
14. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
By: Jill Heinerth
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more
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- nature
15. 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
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
16. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
17. Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
By: Reid Mitenbuler
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greates… read more
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- nonfiction
18. 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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- outdoors
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
19. 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
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- nature
20. Seasons: Desert Sketches
By: Ellen Meloy
4.38
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NP… read more
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- westerns
- short stories
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- essays
- outdoors
- environment
- nature
21. Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
By: Zak Podmore
4.60
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning journalist Zak Podmore brings to life the magnificent terrain and complex politics of… read more
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