A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
10 best books like A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (John Muir): The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals, The Everglades: River of Grass, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail, Notes From Walnut Tree Farm, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind
| Author | Ellen Meloy |
| ISBN | 0375708138 |
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...
| Author | Lee Stetson |
| ISBN | 0939666758 |
Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. Each included adventure has been selected to show the extent to which Muir courted and faced danger, i.e. lived "wildly, " throughout his life. From the famous avalanche ride off the...
| Author | W.L. Rusho |
| ISBN | 1586851640 |
Everett Ruess—a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer—tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day...
| Author | Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
| ISBN | 1561641359 |
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The Everglades. In the Afterword, Michael Grunwald tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points...
| Author | Dennis R. Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1450557465 |
Dennis Blanchard's promise to his brother haunted him for over forty years. Finally, when there were no more excuses, he set out on the Appalachian Trail to fulfill that promise. He learned that walking in the wilderness can reconnect one with a Norman Rockwell America that at times seems long lost and...
| Author | Roger Deakin |
| ISBN | 0241144205 |
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated...
| Author | Barbara Hurd |
| ISBN | 0618215123 |
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In...
| Author | Alan Burdick |
| ISBN | 0374219737 |
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
| Author | Eudora Welty |
| ISBN | 0156966107 |
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that,...
Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind
| Author | Stephen Buchmann |
| ISBN | 0553382667 |
They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible bounties: honey. More than just a palate pleaser,...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0395877466 |
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save...
Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Roland Mueser |
| ISBN | 0070444587 |
totally disagree with what i wrote before - I don't know if I was wanting more of a story/narrative, but overall this is a good resource for its topic, including brief anecdotes along with a compilation of individual hikers' experiences with various types of equipment, preparation, and with the Trail...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0299127648 |
These essays (written between 1904-1947) show how Leopold's concept of soil conservation, game management, forestry, wildlife conservation, and land health changed over the years. I enjoyed that the essays show the growth of his concept of an ecological conscience; taking personal responsibility...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1558217800 |
Several essays really stood out which is what I'm looking for in reading a book like this(something relatable to my experiences). The essay "the song of the canyon wren" described something I've known my entire life, even as a child, but have never shared nor even knew how to put it into words! Moore says...
| Author | David Kline |
| ISBN | 1888683228 |
Organized in four sections corresponding to the seasons, this account by an Amish farmer of his life in Southern Ohio, celebrates his daily labours, his family and, most importantly, the flora and fauna of his 70 acre farm. He works his land with horses and without electricity. He describes the proper...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 1420927124 |
Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod is a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it. Thoreau, a consummate lover of the outdoors and nature is right at home in the Cape and he...
| Author | Michael Grunwald |
| ISBN | 0743251075 |
The Swamp is the story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a journey from the...
| Author | Helen Hoover |
| ISBN | 0816631298 |
Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A...
| Author | Bill Irwin |
| ISBN | 0941539865 |
Written by Bill Irwin, with Dave McCasland. A quick read, but powerfully conveyed. Excellent photos of this seemingly impossible task of not only thru-hiking the AT, but doing it blind, with the help of a Seeing-Eye dog. Heavily Christian framework, but it works for me. I had been meaning to read it and...
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
| Author | Diane Wilson |
| ISBN | 1933392274 |
When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers,...
Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables
| Author | Joan Dye Gussow |
| ISBN | 1603582924 |
Michael Pollan calls her one of his food heroes. Barbara Kingsolver credits her with shaping the history and politics of food in the United States. And countless others who have vied for a food revolution, pushed organics, and reawakened Americans to growing their own food and eating locally consider...
| Author | Linnie Marsh Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0299186342 |
Working closely with Muir’s family and with his papers, Wolfe was able to create a full portrait of her subject, not only as America’s firebrand conservationist and founder of the national park system, but also as husband, father, and friend. All readers who have admired Muir’s ruggedly individualistic...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0375701826 |
At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's...
