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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

10 best books like American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Dan Flores): Losing Earth: A Recent History, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Desert Solitaire, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, Travels in Alaska, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, American Wolf

Losing Earth: A Recent History
AuthorNathaniel Rich
ISBN0374191336
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195007778
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
Desert Solitaire
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0345326490
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
AuthorJohn Vaillant
ISBN0307268934
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome...
Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
AuthorMegan K. Stack
ISBN0385542097
From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers

When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and...
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
AuthorBen Goldfarb
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN0553371304
This book is trash.

I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.

I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...
Travels in Alaska
AuthorJohn Muir
ISBN0781201543
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1250178266
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
American Wolf
AuthorNate Blakeslee
ISBN1101902809
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
AuthorJocko Willink
ISBN1250195780
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a new and revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory.

With their first book, Extreme Ownership (published in...
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
AuthorGraham Hancock
Listening Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes

The concluding volume of the Fingerprints of the Gods trilogy.

Could shattering secrets about the deep past of humanity await discovery in North America?

Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists...
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