An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
10 best books like An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Terry Tempest Williams): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Beverly, Right Here, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside, The Ghost From The Grand Banks, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, Soul of Nowhere, Cristallisation Secrète
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 0870714996 |
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0525521038 |
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style,...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763694649 |
Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0030693012 |
Outstanding fare from one of the modern age's greatest scribes on the American West. I snuck a peak at Wikipedia and agree with Larry McMurty's depiction of him as the "Thoreau of the American West". Having read Abbey's earlier pro-environmental novels ("The Monkey Wrench Gang", "Hayduke Lives")...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575076240 |
It is 2010. In two years' time it will be the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most powerful corporations race to raise the vessel but there are other powers at work, and chaos theory comes into play as plans progress - and six preserved bodies are found. This novel incorporates...
| Author | Pete Fromm |
| ISBN | 0312422725 |
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
| Author | Craig Childs |
| ISBN | 0316735884 |
Craig Childs seems to sort of breathe in nature -- not a deliberate inhalation, mind you, just a sort of unthinking absorption that occurs just by being in a place -- and then breathes out these words. His writing style can get a little heady, but hang in there; wait for a gentle mood, let yourself get intoxicated...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
Financial Peace Revisited
| Author | Dave Ramsey |
| ISBN | 0670032085 |
Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace and More than...
