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10 best books like Round River (Aldo Leopold): Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, The Mountains of California, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau), The Wolverine Way, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060930632
In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award - winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.

Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only...
The Mountains of California
AuthorJohn Muir
John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints...
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
AuthorJanisse Ray
ISBN1571312471
Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism...
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
AuthorWilliam deBuys
ISBN0199778922
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale...
The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
ISBN0691118779
Qui décrira la douceur indicible et la vie immortelle de cette austère forêt, où la Nature, même au coeur de l'hiver, est toujours à son printemps, où les arbres couverts de mousse et en état de décomposition ne sont pas vieux mais semblent dotés d'une jeunesse éternelle : et la Nature bienheureuse...
The Wolverine Way
AuthorDouglas H. Chadwick
ISBN0979065976
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of...
The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
AuthorGary Paul Nabhan
ISBN0865470502
From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the dynamics of their arid homeland in Arizona and Sonora,...
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...
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...
Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
AuthorGeorge Perkins Marsh
ISBN0295983167
As soon as multiplying man had filled the open grounds along the margin of the rivers, the lakes, and the sea, and sufficiently peopled the natural meadows and savannas of the interior, where such existed,he could find room for expansion and further growth, only by the removal of a portion of the forest...
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
AuthorSandra Steingraber
ISBN0375700994
With this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring--and potentially as historic.

In her early twenties,...
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
AuthorStephen R. Palumbi
ISBN1597264350
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...
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...
Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
AuthorMichael K. Stone
ISBN1578051533
Our efforts to build a sustainable world cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, children must become “ecologically literate.” The concept of ecological literacy advanced by this book’s creators, the Center...
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...
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0380717387
I promised a second review / rant about people I hate. This is it. This time it's Smug Environmentalists. The hate will manifest as the review goes on.

Natural Acts is a collection of essays, which mostly appeared originally in the authors column in "Outside" magazine. The essays mostly look...
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America
AuthorJennifer Price
ISBN0465024866
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For this unusual foray into nature writing, Jennifer Price doesn't go off into the mountains. She goes where the vast majority of American have their most consistent experiences of Nature -- in their front yards, in the malls, and in front of their television screens....
Abbey's Road
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265649
You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its subtlest...
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN0805075194
Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential." —Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books

Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter...
Ornithology
AuthorFrank B. Gill
ISBN0716749831
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When the Earth Was Flat: All the Bits of Science We Got Wrong
AuthorGraeme Donald
ISBN1843178680
Science is continually evolving, with a history rich in experimentation. This book investigates the origins of its strangest ideas - once widely accepted to be true, but which have since been disregarded.

When the Earth Was Flat expertly traces the developments of a range of dubious scientific...
Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
AuthorPaul R. Ehrlich
ISBN0142000531
Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us...at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced...
Sunday In The Park With Boys
AuthorJane Mai
ISBN9780987863
Jane Mai will give you advice if you ask for it. For $666.00 she will give you a bad date where you will get punched in the face; for $666.00 she will give you a good date where you might not. With Sunday in the Park with Boys she has given us a poetic account of self-discovery and self-loathing. In this comic...
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