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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

10 best books like Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Karl Jacoby): Abbott, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, The Return of the Soldier, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Dart, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Abbott
AuthorSaladin Ahmed
ISBN1684152453
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city’s elite.

In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid...
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
The Return of the Soldier
AuthorRebecca West
ISBN0812971221
"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0393308731
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our...
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
AuthorEdward Dolnick
ISBN0060531177
The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0618969020
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.

Edward Curtis was charismatic,...
Dart
AuthorAlice Oswald
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
AuthorCraig Welch
ISBN0061537136
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
AuthorRob Nixon
ISBN0674049306
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of slow violence to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional...
Incognegro
AuthorMat Johnson
Strange Fruit
Southern Trees bear a strange fruit.
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
Black body swinging in the southern breeze.
Strange fruit hanging from the Poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth.
Scent...
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