River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado

6 best books like River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado (Wade Davis): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, The Last Train to London, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Edward Abbey: A Life, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

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...

The Last Train to London

Author

Meg Waite Clayton

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and...

The Secret Knowledge of Water

Author	Craig Childs
ISBN	0316610690

The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...

Edward Abbey: A Life

Author	James M. Cahalan
ISBN	0816522677

“The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalan’s meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike.” —Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist and explorer, and the inspiration for Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench...

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Author	Karl Jacoby
ISBN	0520239091

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing,...