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Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

10 best books like Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (George Perkins Marsh): Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays, The Natural History of Selborne, Wilderness and the American Mind, The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating America's Hiking Trail, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Round River, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
AuthorJohn Muir
ISBN1883011248
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America’s most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded...
The Natural History of Selborne
AuthorGilbert White
ISBN0140431128
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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Wilderness and the American Mind
AuthorRoderick Nash
ISBN0300091222
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included...
The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating America's Hiking Trail
AuthorBrian King
ISBN0847839036
The only illustrated book officially published with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, The Appalachian Trail explores this legendary footpath in detail: with a foreword by Bill Bryson and filled with more than 300 spectacular contemporary images, as well as unpublished historical photos, documents,...
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
AuthorWinona LaDuke
ISBN0896085996
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience,...
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
AuthorRobert Pogue Harrison
ISBN0226318079
In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully...
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
AuthorDonald Worster
ISBN0521468345
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
Round River
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195015630
To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada,...
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK
AuthorCorey Ford
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
AuthorJonathan Rosen
ISBN0374186308
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher

John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
Field Notes on Science & Nature
AuthorMichael R. Canfield
ISBN0674057570
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

What...
Fieldbook
AuthorBoy Scouts of America
ISBN0839532008
For something published in the 1980’s, this is decently current. Some sections are quite outdated, such as cameras and film. I was surprised that it included Aspirin in the first aid kit list, as at this time it was already known that Aspirin can cause Reye’s Syndrome. Used then-up-to-date science....
The Best American Science Writing 2009
AuthorNatalie Angier
ISBN0061431664
Edited by Natalie Angier, the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, Best American Science Writing 2009 is the ninth edition of the popular annual series hailed as “superb brain candy” (Kirkus) and dedicated to collecting...
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0393315118
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through...
Ornithology
AuthorFrank B. Gill
ISBN0716749831
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Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive By Investing In Nature
AuthorMark R. Tercek
ISBN0465031811
What is nature worth? The answer to this question—which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms—is revolutionizing the way we do business.

In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams...
The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
AuthorJoel Kovel
ISBN1842770810
This is a hard book to read and recommend (or not recommend), so some explanation is required. If you (a) realize that the environmental crisis is really, really serious, "end of civilization" type stuff, and are wrestling with the problem of the social adjustments necessary to deal with the environmental...
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
AuthorJim Sterba
ISBN0307341968
This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history.  For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more...
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
AuthorEmma Marris
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and...
Views of Nature
AuthorAlexander von Humboldt
ISBN0226923185
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldt’s 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland not only set the course...
The Meaning of Trees: Botany, History, Healing, Lore
AuthorFred Hageneder
Featuring 50 different types of tree, this informative compendium describes each by way of botanical qualities; medicinal uses for their leaves, bark, and wood; cultural symbolism; magical associations; and so much more. Fascinating facts abound: the Druids believed that only the wood of the yew...
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