The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture
10 best books like The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture (Tom Hart Dyke): Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, The Ra Expeditions, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, Viva South America!: A Journey Through A Restless Continent, Our Life in Gardens, Rainforest, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town, How to Walk a Puma: And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America, One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0007240546 |
The good bit is the history of the house and landscape and farming of Sissinghurst, incredibly detailed, interesting, and evocatively written. I really liked this part. Sadly this is approx 1/3 to the book to 2/3 Adam Nicolson's blow by blow account of every conversation he ever had with anyone in the...
| Author | Eve Brown-Waite |
| ISBN | 0767929357 |
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
| Author | Thor Heyerdahl |
| ISBN | 0451051211 |
Ra tells of Heyerdahl's voyage from N. Africa to S. America in a 45' papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in Egyptian wall paintings. A violent storm ended the 1st expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their 2nd journey in Ra II.
One riddle, two answers & no solution
Why...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0679770798 |
An absolutely outstanding book. This is a collection of pieces the author wrote for Outside and some other magazines during the late 70s and early 80s. The book far exceeds the quality of Pecked to Death by Ducks, which is the only other of his collections I have read.
The first half of the book...
Viva South America!: A Journey Through A Restless Continent
| Author | Oliver Balch |
| ISBN | 0571237037 |
Simon Bolivar once inspired a continent to rise from its serfdom and throw off the shackles of Spanish rule, setting the course for independence, freedom and equality. "Viva South America!" sets out to discover if that dream lives on. Is it fair to describe a land as 'independent' while poverty still...
| Author | Joe Eck |
| ISBN | 0374160317 |
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
| Author | Thomas Marent |
| ISBN | 0756619408 |
Thomas Marent, a self-taught photographer who has dedicated half his life to capturing images of rainforest life, tells the story of his journey through these spectacular photographs. Join him as he travels across five continents for an up-close view of the astonishing variety and fascinating behavior...
| Author | Susan Hand Shetterly |
| ISBN | 1565126181 |
Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also...
| Author | Peter Allison |
| ISBN | 0762777567 |
On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind You....
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 0375706135 |
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney)
Swept off to live in...
| Author | Elizabeth Royte |
| ISBN | 0618257586 |
This mischievous behind-the-scenes account of life at a biological research station on a Panamanian island "conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field work" (Science). Journalist Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 0140255079 |
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests...
The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South America
| Author | Tom Miller |
| ISBN | 0792263863 |
Next week I leave for a trip to Ecuador, so naturally I wanted to read something to put me in the mindset of a country I've never visited.
This book, while perhaps a bit dated by 2017 (we'll see once I get there), does a great job of exploring every step in the long process of turning Ecuadoran straw...
To War with Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-1945
| Author | Hermione Ranfurly |
| ISBN | 0749319542 |
In September 1939, the young Lord and Lady Ranfurly's idyllic holiday in Scotland was brought to a premature end when war broke out. Dan Ranfurly, with his faithful valet Whitaker, were sent to North Africa. When her husband was taken prisoner, his wife bluffed her way to the Middle East and stayed there,...
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
| Author | Patrick Symmes |
| ISBN | 0375702652 |
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And on the way...
"Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved."
Nothing indeed. In 1932, Peter Fleming, a literary...
Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
| Author | Sabine Kuegler |
| ISBN | 0446579068 |
A #1 bestseller in Europe, CHILD OF THE JUNGLE tells the remarkable story of a childhood and adolescence spent caught between two modes of existence-jungle life and Western "civilization."
Sabine Kuegler was five years old when her family-her German linguist-missionary parents and her siblings-moved...
The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir
| Author | Frederic Seaman |
| ISBN | 1559720840 |
Frederic Seaman was John Lennon's personal assistant, driver and companion from 1979 until his death. Here is his revealing memoir of Lennon, including Lennon's virtual imprisonment in his apartment house, his obsession with food and sex, the Lennons's colossal shopping sprees, John and Yoko's...
| Author | Peter Moore |
| ISBN | 0553817019 |
Intrepid travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters....
Escape from Saddam: the Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
| Author | Lewis Alsamari |
| ISBN | 0307394018 |
At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and, thanks in part to his fluent English, was soon...
When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
First student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner tells with humor and grace his life with the Beats. But the best story is Kashner himself -- the coming-of-age of a young man in the chaotic world of the very idols he hoped to emulate.
This P.S. edition features an extra...
The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness
| Author | Joachim-Ernst Berendt |
| ISBN | 0892813180 |
Scientists have only recently learned that the particles of an oxygen atom vibrate in a major key and that blades of grass ‘sing.” Europe’s foremost jazz producer takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America, exploring the musical traditions...
| Author | Alastair Bonnett |
| ISBN | 1781316384 |
Geography is getting stranger. Out there fleets of new islands are under construction and eye-wateringly insane micro-nations are struggling into the light; unseen rivers are tumbling under sleeping cites and once secret fantasy- gardens are cracking open their doors. As groups like Islamic State...
Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln
| Author | Jason Emerson |
| ISBN | 0809330555 |
Although he was Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s oldest and last surviving son, the details of Robert T. Lincoln’s life are misunderstood by some and unknown to many others. Nearly half a century after the last biography about Abraham Lincoln’s son was published, historian and author Jason Emerson...
Keep the River on Your Right
| Author | Tobias Schneebaum |
| ISBN | 0802131336 |
Completely dissatisfied with the 1999 documentary of the same name, I decided to pick up Tobias Schneebaum's book "Keep the River on Your Right" to learn more about his experiences in Peru myself.
In the mid-1950's Schneebaum walked into the jungle in search of acceptance and became a member...
