House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
9 best books like House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (Craig Childs): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Desert Solitaire, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, In Search of the Old Ones, The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
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...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0345326490 |
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
| Author | Marc Reisner |
| ISBN | 0140178244 |
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0375725180 |
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...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0140159940 |
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...
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0684832127 |
David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century,...
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
| Author | Graham Hancock |
| ISBN | 0671865412 |
The loss of the Ark of the Covenant is an historical mystery. To believers, the Ark was the vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies & lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously...
Finding Everett Ruess
by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
| Author | Jonathan White |
| ISBN | 1595348050 |
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China,...
