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
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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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- nature
- environment
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"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. 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
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- nature
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- natural history
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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
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- adventure
- travel
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- environment
- nature
4. 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
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- nature
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5. 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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- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
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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
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
6. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
By: Wallace Stegner , None
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition … read more
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- travel
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- science
7. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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- travel
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10. 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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11. Young Men and Fire
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefight… read more
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12. Sometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
4.26
Format: 628 pages, Paperback
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Follo… read more
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"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
". . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
13. 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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14. River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
By: Wade Davis
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river drainag… read more
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15. 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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16. Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
By: Jon Krakauer , David Roberts
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Finding Everett Ruessby David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer,is the definitive biography … read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
20. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
By: Jonathan Meiburg
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey … read more
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21. 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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