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Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

10 best books like Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul (Scott Weidensaul): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, The Sound of Mountain Water, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, Crossing Open Ground, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)

Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0618709401
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802138888
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery...
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
AuthorChristopher Cokinos
ISBN0446677493
I really enjoyed the first half of the book, though it was depressing to read story after story about how people worked hard to help the heath hen, passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and ivory billed woodpecker only to be met with ultimate doom. But, I found the second half more tedious to read. There...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0910055998
When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock....
The Norton Book of Nature Writing
AuthorRobert Finch
ISBN0393027996
Man's encounter with nature has produced some of the great literature of our time. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Melville's exploration of the "whiteness of the whale, " and Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond are monuments in the history of writing and thought. "The Norton Book...
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...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
Crossing Open Ground
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0679721835
As an collection of journalistic pieces and essays, Crossing Open Ground is slightly less consistent in its overwhelming awe than Lopez' other works. His earlier, more explicitly journalistic pieces seem less impressive than the later works, which tend to be the ones that spend more time drawing...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
ISBN0679451234
“Once in a great while, a natural history book changes the way people look at the world. In 1838, John ames Audubon’s Birds of America was one...In 1934, Roger Tory Peterson produced Field Guide to the Birds...Now comes The Sibley Guide to Birds.”

Thus did The New York Times, in 1999, greet...
The Forgotten Pollinators
AuthorStephen L. Buchmann
ISBN1559633530
Really good.

I had read about this years ago, and finally got around to it, expecting something fairly academic.

I was surprised then to see the vivid, kind of aggressive cover as various pollinators come right at you. This is accompanied by several other illustrations that are surprisingly...
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0805031332
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.

The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the...
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America
AuthorDavid McWilliams Ludlum
ISBN0679408517
Interest in our nation's weather patterns is rising -- as witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel -- and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America. The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud...
Ravens in Winter
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0679732365
The author starts with reports that he has heard, that ravens share their food. And he wonders, "why?" Why, indeed. He formulates dozens of hypotheses that could explain this sharing. And yet, he is not even sure whether or not they truly do share their food.

So the author begins a long, painstaking...
Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds
AuthorPaul R. Ehrlich
ISBN0671659898
This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format.

The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your identification guide. For each of the 646 species...
The Singing Wilderness
AuthorSigurd F. Olson
ISBN0816629927
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness,...
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN1610910206
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. If it ceased flowing,...
Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
ISBN0395864976
On an April day in 1953, renowned American naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue,...
The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map
AuthorPeter Stark
ISBN0345521900
Americans have shaped the idea of wilderness, and it has shaped us. The Last Empty Places is one man’s love letter to the enduring American wild, where our country’s character was forged and its destiny set in motion.

Memories of growing up in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods inspired writer...
Last of the Curlews
AuthorFred Bodsworth
ISBN1887178252
Depressing, heart-breaking, and an infuriating (but oh so very much important, necessary and for 1963 impressively modern) massive indictment of us, of humans, and especially and in particular of those of us who hunt not for sustenance (for food) and survival but who for sport, for willful destruction...
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
AuthorLee Allen Peterson
Informative and interesting, Lee Allen Peterson's A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America is a reference guide that has been conceptualised for one main purpose and therefore specifically and only describes the many edible wild plant species of Eastern and Central...
The Crossley Id Guide: Eastern Birds
AuthorRichard Crossley
ISBN0691147787
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your...
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