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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard · 279 pages
What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey · 270 pages
An account of the author's experiences, observations, and reflections as a seasonal park ranger in southeast Utah. When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road an
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.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
Amy Leach · 208 pages
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Mary Oliver · 101 pages
A collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin · 95 pages
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
Ted Kooser · 155 pages
"Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the Bohemian Alps of southeastern Nebraska. Like many other people in this rural area, he has what he calls "wolf vision"--He sees every change in the landscape around him. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the old-fashioned o
The Empathy Exams: Essays
Leslie Jamison · 225 pages
A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Kathleen Dean Moore · 195 pages
The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man
Loren Eiseley
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Jay Griffiths · 384 pages
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit · 259 pages
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
Kyo Maclear · 221 pages
A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature she decided to follow him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
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