The End of Nature
10 best books like The End of Nature (Bill McKibben): Silent Spring, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Losing Earth: A Recent History, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Desert Solitaire, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, The Future Of Life, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| ISBN | 0618249060 |
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 1451697384 |
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.
In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...
Losing Earth: A Recent History
| Author | Nathaniel Rich |
| ISBN | 0374191336 |
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0345326490 |
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684827123 |
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
| Author | William Stolzenburg |
| ISBN | 1596912995 |
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist.
It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and flying...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0349115796 |
A magisterial accomplishment: both a moving description of our biosphere and a guidebook for the protection of all its species, including humankind.
From one of the world’s most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author) comes his most timely and important...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
| Author | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| ISBN | 1596911301 |
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374514313 |
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in...
| Author | George Monbiot |
| ISBN | 0896087794 |
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning marks an important moment in our civilization’s thinking about global warming. The question is no longer Is climate change actually happening? but What do we do about it? George Monbiot offers an ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide...
| Author | Roderick Nash |
| ISBN | 0300091222 |
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included...
