The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
By: David Roberts
3.95
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national mo…
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1. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more
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"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
2. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
By: Craig Childs
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native pe… read more
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- history
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- archaeology
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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
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- nature
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- environment
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4. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
By: Michael Punke
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 mil… read more
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5. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Basin and Range
By: John McPhee
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book… read more
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- history
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7. 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
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8. The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappea… read more
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9. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
By: Douglas Brinkley
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of Ame… read more
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10. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
By: Kent Nerburn
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
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11. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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12. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
By: Conor Knighton
4.26
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more
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"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
13. 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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14. 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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- nature
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
15. 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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- history
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- archaeology
"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
16. 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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17. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
By: Jonathan M. Katz
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
By: H.W. Brands
4.24
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the Am… read more
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19. Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environm… read more
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- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Scientists have stumbled on the remains of ancient woods in this way, locating root systems that continue to support the forest long after the body of the tree has disappeared. In this sense the tree…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to …"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Automation, globalization, and increased education requirements - compounded by failures in government and institutions - have given rise to a generation of disconnected and fearful people. The numbe…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
20. Dories, Ho!
By: Matt Smith
4.47
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
Travel with Matt and Karen as they float down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. In Septe… read more
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- nonfiction
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21. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
By: Douglas Brinkley
4.35
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
22. The Spanish Diplomat's Secret (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #3)
By: Nev March
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Spanish Diplomat's Secret, award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-cent… read more
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23. 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
24. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
25. Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
By: Lauren Redniss
4.18
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache fam… read more
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26. 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
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"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
27. The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History
By: Darren Parry
4.17
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Even though the Bear River Massacre was a defining event in the history of the Northwest Band of th… read more
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28. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
By: Megan Kate Nelson
3.70
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating stor… read more
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29. Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape
By: R.E. Burrillo
4.23
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
"Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears—all of it, … read more
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- archaeology
- environment
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30. The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
By: David Roberts
3.95
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national mo… read more
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31. Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears
By: Jacqueline Keeler
4.38
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
"An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah'… read more
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