The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild

7 best books like The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild (Lynn Schooler): Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right, Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest, The Natural, A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0143039962

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...

The Monkey Wrench Gang

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...

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0099268701

The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the...

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right

Author	Al Franken
ISBN	0452285216

Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the...

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest

Author

Mark J. Plotkin

For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced...

The Natural

Author	Bernard Malamud
ISBN	0374502005

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition

Introduction by Kevin Baker

The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually...

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Author	Stephen Kinzer
ISBN	0470120150

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale,...