A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
9 best books like A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds (Gary Snyder): Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, Wilderness and the American Mind, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, Once You Break a Knuckle, Botany for Gardeners, Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, Muddling Toward Frugality
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
| Author | David Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0684840057 |
In a narrative that possesses both remarkable political importance and extraordinary literary power, David Horowitz tells the story of his startling political odyssey from Sixties radical to Nineties conservative. A political document of our times, Radical Son traces three generations of one...
| Author | Roderick Nash |
| ISBN | 0300091222 |
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included...
| Author | Rick Fields |
| ISBN | 0877736316 |
It would be interesting to imagine what revisions Rick Fields would have made to any further editions to his contemporary classic narrative history of buddhism in America had he not died so young, from lung cancer at the age of 57. Much has happened since 1999.
And yet, he did get to offer what...
| Author | Wallace Black Elk |
| ISBN | 0062500740 |
I wanted to like this book more than 3 stars... it probably deserves more than that. But I fall into the category of people Black Elk refers to as "educated". Which means I've been to school, college, etc and some of the more basic truths have probably been schooled right out of me. I did like the ideas he talks...
| Author | D.W. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0670065749 |
Set in the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, Once You Break a Knuckle tells stories of good people doing bad things: two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy’s death; a heartbroken young man refuses to warn his best friend about an approaching car; sons challenge...
| Author | Brian Capon |
| ISBN | 0881926558 |
A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded and updated to include an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index. Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new edition even richer with information. Its convenient paperback format...
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
| Author | Huston Smith |
| ISBN | 0061154261 |
“In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him and shared his journey—a Who’s Who of 20th century spiritual America: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary,...
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
| Author | Humphrey Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0618057021 |
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel...
Muddling Toward Frugality
| Author | Warren Johnson |
| ISBN | 1935212168 |
Mr. Johnson’s thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the non-renewable kind, become harder...
