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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer · 191 pages
Krakauer takes the reader to wonderful, awful peaks like Denali, the Eiger, Devil's Thumb, K-2 and Everest.
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard · 177 pages
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau · 188 pages
Nature and Selected Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 415 pages
Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.
Fire
Sebastian Junger · 224 pages
"For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force: here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bri
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit · 326 pages
"In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories -- of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones in o
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould · 343 pages
For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.
Essays of E.B. White
E.B. White · 288 pages
When E.B. White received the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the following citation, here quoted in part, accompanied the award: "If we are remembered as a civilized era, I think it will be partly because of E.B. White. The historians of the future will decide that a writer of such grace and control could not have been produced by a generation
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Kathleen Norris · 228 pages
Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Mary Oliver · 101 pages
A collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.
The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man
Loren Eiseley
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
Edward Abbey, Jim Stiles · 242 pages
A collection of essays on the American West covers such issues as urban growth, the gentrification of the small-town West, and wilderness preservation.
Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen · 355 pages
This collection of Franzen's non-fiction confirms his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In 'Farther Away', he returns to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Wallace Stegner · 245 pages
"Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity: its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer's own "migrant childhood" to the need to protect what remains of the great
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
Amy Leach · 208 pages
Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver · 288 pages
"In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects, ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remo
A Fine and Pleasant Misery
Patrick F. McManus · 209 pages
What are People for?: Essays
Wendell Berry · 210 pages
Essays on Nate Shaw, Harry Caudill, Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, diversity, waste, eating, local culture, consumption, conservation, environmental concerns, and other topics.
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Jay Griffiths · 384 pages
The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich · 131 pages
A collection of essays in which the author discusses her personal relationship with the natural beauty and harshness of Wyoming.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams · 232 pages
In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams (beloved author of "Refuge") creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals .. and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
My Story as told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
David James Duncan · 304 pages
"In his own words, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the kingdom of heaven is within us and thought, Yeah, sure. But the first time I walked up a trout stream, fly rod in hand, I didn't feel I was 'outside' at all: I was traveling further and further in." An estimated three thousand river walks la