Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
By: John Clayton
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierr…
Want to Read $ 18.99"But among the great road trips of American history--from Lewis and Clark to Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac-- it hardly rates a mention."-John Clayton, Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
"But among the great road trips of American history--from Lewis and Clark to Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac-- it hardly rates a mention."-John Clayton, Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
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1. A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
By: Jane Ziegelman , None , Andrew Coe
3.75
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth expl… read more
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2. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Pioneers of Conservation)
By: Char Miller
3.68
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for … read more
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3. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
By: Earl Swift
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. 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
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"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
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
5. The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
By: Denise Kiernan
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of … read more
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6. Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
By: Jack McDevitt
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review Alex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious ant… read more
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7. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
By: Richard Holmes
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been insp… read more
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8. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
By: Charles C. Mann
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Over 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. They developed different … read more
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9. 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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10. Paper: Paging Through History
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millen… read more
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11. 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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12. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
By: Peter Stark
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast … read more
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13. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
14. 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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15. 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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16. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
17. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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18. Binti: The Complete Trilogy
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.04
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Includes a brand-new Binti story! Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo-… read more
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"Amongst the Himba, you "were what you knew you were once you knew what you were and that was that", to quote my village's chief Kapika."-Nnedi Okorafor, Binti: The Complete Trilogy
19. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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20. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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21. Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw
By: Charles Leerhsen
3.64
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaini… read more
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22. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
By: Danielle Dreilinger
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken mu… read more
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23. The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
By: April White
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth… read more
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24. 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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"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
25. The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
By: Nancy Goldstone
3.93
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois… read more
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26. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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27. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
By: Dorothy Wickenden
4.04
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, The Agitators chronicles the revo… read more
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"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
"...there never was a man whose good temper was proof against a missing button. [Lazette Miller Worden, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright, in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
28. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
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29. 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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30. Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
By: John Clayton
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierr… read more
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"But among the great road trips of American history--from Lewis and Clark to Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac-- it hardly rates a mention."-John Clayton, Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
31. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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