Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
6 best books like Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier (Jeffrey A. Lockwood): The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals, The Solace of Open Spaces, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present, In Search of Small Gods
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen...
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
| Author | Ross D.E. MacPhee |
| ISBN | 0393249298 |
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands....
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0140081135 |
When I requested this title in NetGalley, I did not realize it was an older book of essays coming up for a reprinting. I actually have another book from the author on my "around the world" shelves at home - This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland. So she was on my vague periphery, but I was very happy to...
| Author | Brenda Miller |
| ISBN | 0072512784 |
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?
At this point I have read most of the book...
| Author | Lex Williford |
| ISBN | 1416531742 |
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable anthology brings together fifty unforgettable works from all genres of creative nonfiction. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country,...
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 1556593007 |
“Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites—for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of...
