Confessions of a Barbarian
10 best books like Confessions of a Barbarian (Edward Abbey): The Mountains of California, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, Edward Abbey: A Life, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty, Blue Desert
John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0375725180 |
The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country...
Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0805062963 |
Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death,...
| Author | Doug Peacock |
| ISBN | 0805045430 |
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0805076271 |
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0521468345 |
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
Before they were taken over by politically correct left coast weenies Foremans Earth First! was a very cool thing. They were "redneck hippies" who had a love for American wilderness and took radical steps to conserve it. Written after the FBI's attempt to set him up on bogus charges and after he left EF!...
| Author | James M. Cahalan |
| ISBN | 0816522677 |
“The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalan’s meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike.” —Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist and explorer, and the inspiration for Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench...
| Author | W.L. Rusho |
| ISBN | 0879052104 |
Everett Ruess, the young poet and artist who disappeared into the desert canyonlands of Utah in 1934, has become widely known posthumously as the spokesman for the spirit of the high desert. Many have been inspired by his intense search for adventure, leaving behind the amenities of a comfortable life....
| Author | Charles Bowden |
| ISBN | 0816510814 |
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged?
In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has...
| Author | Mary Hunter Austin |
| ISBN | 0140249192 |
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0060199865 |
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.
Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
| Author | Brenda Peterson |
| ISBN | 0306818043 |
In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived...
| Author | David Gessner |
| ISBN | 1571313249 |
In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston’s Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with...
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
| Author | John Hemming |
| ISBN | 0500252106 |
One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia—the world’s largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem—was then an almost-undiscovered environment...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
| Author | Helen Nearing |
| ISBN | 0930031636 |
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1582436290 |
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations—harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world—move...
| Author | Sigurd F. Olson |
| ISBN | 0816629943 |
In Runes of the North Sigurd Olson explores his feelings about the haunting appeal of the wilderness. He recounts how the legends of the northern vastness of Canada and Alaska have influenced him.In the introduction, Olson writes, "My runes have come from the wilderness, for in its solitude, silence,...
| Author | Neil Turnbull |
| ISBN | 0737000341 |
I got this as a gift—from my mother, I think, and well-meaning I'm sure regardless—and it took me years to slog my way through it because, despite my love for philosophy and my desire to get a better overview of it from ancient Greece to today, I just plain didn't like this.
It is, in fact, a reasonably...
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape
| Author | Galen A. Rowell |
| ISBN | 0871563673 |
This best-selling classic, which the New York Times called “the classiest ‘how-to’ text on landscape color photography ever published,” captures the unique artistic vision of the late Galen Rowell, one of America’s greatest outdoor photographers. Here Rowell assembled eighty of his...
A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt
| Author | Tom Wicker |
| ISBN | 0803297564 |
A Time To Die compels us to understand the inhumanity of prisons in America, one of the greatest injustices of our time, and of a state that has no compunction about murdering prisoners and jailers alike. Think Attica forty years ago, think Pelican Bay today. Then act."Michael Ratner, president,...
Easy Journey to Other Planets
| Author | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda |
| ISBN | 0912776102 |
Newspaper headlines read, "Man's First Steps on the Moon", but the reporters do not know that millions and millions of men went there and came back. This is not for the first time. This is an ancient practice. In the Bhagavad Gita(8.16) it is clearly stated, 'abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino arjuna:'...
