13 best-selling audiobook books like Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman

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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…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • 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)

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2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

3. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nature
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
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4. 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

Similar categories in David Owen's Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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5. 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

Similar categories in Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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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

Similar categories in Craig Childs's The Secret Knowledge of Water book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

7. The Water Knife

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Col… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

8. 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

Similar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

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9. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • 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

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10. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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11. 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

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • environment
  • audiobook
"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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12. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

By: Finn Murphy

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul .”―Sloane Crosley, Vanity… read more

Similar categories in Finn Murphy's The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been larg…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply o…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t give two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited sup…"

-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

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13. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

Cover of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover

14. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

By: Ted Conover

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more

Similar categories in Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

15. 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

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • 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

Cover of Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia

16. 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

Similar categories in Brianna Madia's Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West by Finn Murphy

17. Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

By: Finn Murphy

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his f… read more

Similar categories in Finn Murphy's Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson

18. 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

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The High Sierra: A Love Story book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports by John Branch

19. Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports

By: John Branch

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Breathtaking tales of climbers and hunters, runners and racers, winners and losers by the Pulitzer … read more

Similar categories in John Branch's Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman

20. 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

Similar categories in Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin  Farrell

21. Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West

By: Justin Farrell

3.69

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilde… read more

Similar categories in Justin Farrell's Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West book and Heather Hansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or…"

-Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West

9 Top memoir books like Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

Finn Murphy

3.96

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Nowhere for Very Long

Brianna Madia

4.11

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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

Ted Conover

3.90

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25 Best audiobook books like Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports by John Branch

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

Mark Synnott

4.14

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