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10 best books like Down the River (Edward Abbey): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Selected Poems, Under Milk Wood, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195007778
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0072434171
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0375725180
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...
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140159940
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Washington politics. We witness the successes and...
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
AuthorGerald Durrell
ISBN0140043853
"Gollys, Mrs Durrells," he said, his face red with wrath. "Why don'ts yous lets Masters Leslies shoot the son of a bitch?"

In life, Gerald Durrell would light up a room. His books elicit that same warm feeling.
His affection for the natural world lives on in the minds of those of us, who...
Selected Poems
AuthorMarina Tsvetaeva
ISBN0140187596
Under normal circumstances with poetry I always like an in-depth read up on the writer prior to reading if it's somebody that I know nothing about, in the case of Marina Tsvetaeva my knowledge of her was non-existent, but hastily threw myself into the deep end instead of getting my feet wet first, so I had...
Under Milk Wood
AuthorDylan Thomas
ISBN0811202097
Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud.

Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at...
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
AuthorG.B. Edwards
ISBN1590172337
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France...
The Secret Knowledge of Water
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN0316610690
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
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,...
Elegy On Toy Piano
AuthorDean Young
ISBN0822958724
In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence.

Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No one feeling or idea...
The Alexiad
AuthorAnna Comnena
ISBN0140442154
'The shining light of the world, the great Alexius'

Anna Comnena (1083-1153) wrote The Alexiad as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It is also an important source of information on the Byzantine war with the Normans, and the First Crusade, in which Alexius...
Blood, Tin, Straw
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375707352
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.

From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
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