Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean

9 best books like Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean (Julia Whitty): Big Sur, The Dharma Bums, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, Walking with Spring: The Story That Inspired Thousands of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

Big Sur

Author	Jack Kerouac
ISBN	0140168125

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century,...

The Dharma Bums

Author

Jack Kerouac

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	0385496095

Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...

Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	1594486298

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway and Almost Everything, Lamott's long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace

Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent....

The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

Author	Will Tuttle
ISBN	1590560833

Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture's values and paradigms at the most...

Walking with Spring: The Story That Inspired Thousands of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers

Author	Earl V. Shaffer
ISBN	0917953843

In April 1948, the 11-year-old Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia was pretty much a wreck: Volunteer maintainers who hadn't been called to combat couldn't get rationed gasoline to get out there to keep it clear. In April 1948, so, pretty much, was Earl Shaffer, self-dubbed The Crazy One. He had...

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Author	Richard Preston
ISBN	1400064899

Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...

Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea

Author	Katherine Harmon Courage
ISBN	1591845270

No one understands the octopus. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly sentient look behind its highly evolved eyes, how could it appear anything but utterly alien?

Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them. Many cultures...

American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

Author	Eric Rutkow
ISBN	1439193541

In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.

This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells...