Heart Earth

8 best books like Heart Earth (Ivan Doig): Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Peace Like a River, Discourse on Method, Islandborn, Travels in Alaska, The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Sacred Clowns

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Author	Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN	0679740244

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...

Peace Like a River

Author	Leif Enger
ISBN	0802139256

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across...

Discourse on Method

Author	René Descartes
ISBN	0872204227

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the...

Islandborn

Author	Junot Díaz
ISBN	0735229864

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.

So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby....

Travels in Alaska

Author	John Muir
ISBN	0781201543

In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections...

The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics

Author	Ivars Peterson
ISBN	0805071598

In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating, landscape of modern mathematics. Now the journey continues in a new, updated edition that includes all the...

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Author

Pam Houston

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...

Sacred Clowns

Author

Tony Hillerman

First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a council woman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Pueblo ceremony,...