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Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

10 best books like Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness (Doug Peacock): Down the River, The Abstract Wild, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness, The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, The Sound of Mountain Water, Starlight and Storm, Scrambles Amongst the Alps

Down the River
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265630
"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.

Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes...
The Abstract Wild
AuthorJack Turner
ISBN0816516995
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us.

How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it,...
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...
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
AuthorAmy Irvine
ISBN0865477035
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was...
The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395717590
Do grizzly bears still wander the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where they have long been considered extinct? If so, can they elude the naturalists determined to prove that these bears, smarter than all other bears, survive in the mountain wilderness? Rick Bass, along with veteran grizzly expert...
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
AuthorJohn Wesley Powell
ISBN0142437522
One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.

The Exploration of the Colorado River and...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Starlight and Storm
AuthorGaston Rébuffat
ISBN0375755063
"One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living." --Sir John Hunt, author of The Conquest of Everest

Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation...
Scrambles Amongst the Alps
AuthorEdward Whymper
ISBN0792269233
When he first saw the Alps in 1860, Edward Whymper was a 20-year-old English wood engraver whose dream was to become an arctic explorer. Ambitious and hungry for adventure, he fell in love with the challenge the Alps presented and set out to conquer them peak by peak. Whymper made quick work of the challenge,...
Everest: The West Ridge
AuthorThomas F. Hornbein
ISBN0898866162
The first successful summit attempts of Mt. Everest occurred in the mid 20th century. Of course the first, and most historical, was achieved in 1953 by a British expedition when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to stand on the top of the world. Their route was up the southeast ridge,...
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
AuthorW.L. Rusho
ISBN1586851640
Everett Ruess—a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer—tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day...
Blue Desert
AuthorCharles Bowden
ISBN0816510814
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...
Crossing Open Ground
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0679721835
As an collection of journalistic pieces and essays, Crossing Open Ground is slightly less consistent in its overwhelming awe than Lopez' other works. His earlier, more explicitly journalistic pieces seem less impressive than the later works, which tend to be the ones that spend more time drawing...
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
AuthorPete Fromm
ISBN0312422725
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
AuthorDouglas W. Smith
ISBN1592288863
Rear cover notes: "In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. With recently...
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