Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

6 best books like Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (Karsten Heuer): The House of Broken Angels, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation, The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America, The Nuclear Age, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

The House of Broken Angels

Author

Luis Alberto Urrea

The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-American family occasioned by the impending loss of its patriarch, from one of the country's most beloved authors.

Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican...

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0099268701

The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the...

The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0140298517

From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.

Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's...

The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	1594488657

A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.

Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system...

The Nuclear Age

Author	Tim O'Brien
ISBN	0140259104

The Nuclear Age is about one man's slightly insane attempt to come to terms with a dilemma that confronts us all—a little thing called The Bomb.

The year is 1995, and William Cowling has finally found the courage to meet his fears head-on. Cowling's courage takes the form of a hole that he...

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Author	Rebecca Solnit
ISBN	1595341986

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical...