Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
10 best books like Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra (Jordan Fisher Smith): The Monkey Wrench Gang, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks, The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers, Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Masters of Photography Series
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0061129763 |
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
| Author | Dayton Duncan |
| ISBN | 0307268969 |
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,...
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
| Author | C.A. Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0316449458 |
When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.
My name's Griz. My childhood...
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 1400064899 |
Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...
| Author | Andrea Lankford |
| ISBN | 0762752637 |
The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks
For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol...
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0679771824 |
Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....
| Author | Stephen Shore |
| ISBN | 0500542872 |
When I elbowed through the pink David LaChapelles and the anal-retentive Ansels (always the Ansels) I discovered this at the local B&N today, its dust jacket beaten-up and sliced a little on the back, by an incautiously wielded box cutter probably. Usually these defects alone would dissuade me...
A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail
| Author | Angela Ballard |
| ISBN | 0898869021 |
Winner of the 2003 Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Award and Winner of the 2004 National Outdoor Book Award
A blend of romance, humor, and adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail Written in "he said/she said" alternating chapters, this young couple each tell their own story They're not sure which...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Masters of Photography Series
| Author | Photo Poche |
| ISBN | 0893817449 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals--as only a few great artists have done--the variety and richness of human experience in the twentieth century. This second volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer who--with the new, smaller, hand-held cameras and...
| Author | Vivian Maier |
| ISBN | 1576875776 |
Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher.
A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly...
A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
| Author | Annie Leibovitz |
| ISBN | 0375505091 |
"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990--2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards,...
