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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Norman Maclean · 234 pages
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Olivia Laing · 283 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
Joyce Sidman · 32 pages
In spring red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. In winter green waits in the hearts of trees, feeling the earth turn. Color comes alive in this whimsical, innovative book. Blue dances on summer lakes, green drips from spring leaves, black wafts mysteriously through autumn evenings. Together, an award-winning poet and a brilliant painter inspire u
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
The River Why
David James Duncan · 294 pages
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. The River Why is a tale that gives a contemporary voice to the concerns and hopes of all living things on this beautiful, watery planet
Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems
Robinson Jeffers · 30 pages
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997
Wendell Berry · 228 pages
"For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sonday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems."--Jacket. This volume gathers all of these poems written to date.
Waterland
Graham Swift · 358 pages
Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
Saints at the River
Ron Rash · 239 pages
"When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the small South Carolina town that bears the river's name becomes the center of a far-reaching controversy. Anxious to recover the body and give their daughter a proper burial, the girl's parents want to send divers down into the rain-swollen currents. But a contingent of environmentalists is opposed
Selected Poems
Robert Frost
In his poetry, Robert Frost made plainspoken men and women eloquent philosophers on the human condition. Robert Frost: Selected Poems is a unique collection of more than 100 poems by this well-known twentieth-century American poet. It includes the full contents of his first three volumes of poetry--A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval--and such beloved poems as Mending Wall, The Ro
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 130 pages
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 263 pages
Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 770 pages
The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.
The Day Of Creation
J.G. Ballard · 254 pages
In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in Central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges upriver, clashing with
Turtle Island
Gary Snyder, Michael Corr · 161 pages
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons
Barry Lopez · 138 pages
"Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, River Notes and Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes ... and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense personal experience as man tries to come to terms with the Ear
Suttree
Cormac McCarthy · 471 pages
By the author of *Blood Meridian* and *All the Pretty Horses, Suttree* is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physic
Haweswater
Sarah Hall · 277 pages
Sarah Hall's first novel is set in 1936 in a remote dale in the old county of Westmoreland, and tells of the flooding of the dale to make way for a reservoir, against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers. It is a story of love, obsession and the destruction of a community.