Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
10 best books like Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Susan Hand Shetterly): Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, Summer World: A Season of Bounty, The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Nature Literacy Series, Vol. 1) (Nature Literacy)
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
| Author | Amy Irvine |
| ISBN | 0865477035 |
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0609610732 |
This book chronicles a walk from one state to another along the boundary of a glacial lake, but the way McKibben describes it, it is so much more. It is a cultural divide, a socioeconomic divide. I was hoping for more nature, but McKibben plainly states "I am not a naturalist". He mentions a few trees, a few...
| Author | Julie Zickefoose |
| ISBN | 0547003099 |
Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day...
| Author | Roger Deakin |
| ISBN | 0241141842 |
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element"as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies...
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684835096 |
Passage From Book:
Personal ethics involves the drawing of lines: I will go as far as this boundary, here, but I will not go beyond. I will defend myself against physical menace but only pacifically. I will fight if attacked but I won't kill. I will kill if my family is threatened but I won't aggress....
| Author | Robert Finch |
| ISBN | 0393027996 |
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...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060742178 |
“Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell….A national treasure.”
—Los Angeles Times
Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich,...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0547055161 |
The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing...
| Author | David Sobel |
| ISBN | 0913098507 |
This is really more of an essay than a book (only 36 pages) but important nonetheless as it explores environmental education for children, connecting different types of activities to different ages. The basic message of the book is to not overburden very young children with the problems of the world...
| Author | Eric Rutkow |
| ISBN | 1439193541 |
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.
This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells...
| Author | Karsten Heuer |
| ISBN | 1594850100 |
What began as a wildlife research project became much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Both gripping adventure and stark portrayal of an Arctic cosystem threatened by oil development....
| Author | Wade Davis |
| ISBN | 1610910206 |
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,...
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored...
| Author | Helen Hoover |
| ISBN | 0816631298 |
Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A...
| Author | Esther Woolfson |
| ISBN | 1847082750 |
Against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen, Woolfson observes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. She considers the geographic, atmospheric and environmental elements which bring diverse life forms together in close proximity, and in...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0393338754 |
"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."—Washington Post
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman...
It was an epiphany: The moment two friends showed Luke Dempsey a small bird flitting around the bushes of his country garden, he fell madly in love. But did he really want to be a birder? Didn't that mean he'd be forced to eat granola? And wear a man-pouch? Before he knew it, though, he was lost to birding...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 1590307712 |
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her...
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...
