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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd · 114 pages
The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher. Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977, Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane w
Holloway
Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards · 48 pages
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.
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
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen · 338 pages
This lovely book (1978) describes a two month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region of Nepal. The book combines the search for the snow leopard with a search for inner meaning (Zen Buddism)
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Gretel Ehrlich · 400 pages
For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice. Greenland, the world's largest island, 840,000 square miles in extent, is covered by the largest continental ice sheet in the world. Her guide, her inspiration, her companion in spirit was the g
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir · 225 pages
Presents the journal of naturalist John Muir in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains where he went for the first time in 1869 while working as an overseer hired on to help move a band of sheep to summer pasture.
The Outrun
Amy Liptrot · 292 pages
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Now she finds herself standing at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in England. Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
Terry Tempest Williams · 416 pages
"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"-- "For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women W
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 368 pages
Warm, leisurely account of author's neighbors, and her everyday affairs while living for thirteen years in a remote section of the Florida hammock at Cross Creek.
The Singing Wilderness
Sigurd F. Olson · 244 pages
Birds and other wild life of the lake country of the Quetico-Superior, northwest of Lake Superior.
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
John Lewis-Stempel · 298 pages
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Ellen Meloy · 330 pages
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great
The Sea Inside
Philip Hoare · 374 pages
In this book the author sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles, like the migration patterns of whales, he explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand. As he weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable peo
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Roger Deakin · 403 pages
Accompanying famed British nature writer Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees. Deakin lives in forest shacks, goes "coppicing" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback. Along the way, he ferrets out the m
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Olivia Laing · 283 pages
Basin and Range
John McPhee · 215 pages
From the blog *View From The Blue House* - "John McPhee is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. In 1978 he started a set of journeys across America with geologists that turned into a series of five books published over twenty years. Basin and Range is the first book in the series and mostly concerns the geological landscape from eastern Utah to eastern California. Rather than pr
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez · 464 pages
This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait and Davis Strait. It is an account both of the natural history of the Arctic, and equally of how the Arctic grips the human spirit and imagination.\ The chapters are rich in their descriptions of the Arctic –of the physical land itself, the native peoples that the author met, the Arctic animals and
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Jay Griffiths · 384 pages
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes · 272 pages
"Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at
Upstream: Select Essays
Mary Oliver · 185 pages
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mys
Under the Sea Wind
Rachel Carson · 239 pages
Rachel Carson--pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring--opens our eyes to the wonders of the natural world in her groundbreaking paean to the sea. 2016 marks the 75th Anniversary of the publication of Under the Sea-Wind. Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind--Rachel Carson's first book and her personal favorite--i