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The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)

10 best books like The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) (Henry David Thoreau): The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, Wilderness and the American Mind, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, Selected Essays, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, The Founding Fish, Round River, The Edge of the Sea, Notes From Walnut Tree Farm, The Art of Seeing Things

The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
AuthorGraeme Gibson
ISBN0385514832
In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.

Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning...
Wilderness and the American Mind
AuthorRoderick Nash
ISBN0300091222
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...
In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60
AuthorLeslie Mass
ISBN0976568608
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
Selected Essays
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0140390138
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was a radical departure from the traditional European emphasis on domesticating nature to suit human...
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
AuthorJohn Muir
ISBN0395901472
Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness,...
The Founding Fish
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374528837
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts...
Round River
AuthorAldo Leopold
ISBN0195015630
To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada,...
The Edge of the Sea
AuthorRachel Carson
ISBN0844670146
"The edge of the sea is a strange & beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental & conservation...
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
AuthorRoger Deakin
ISBN0241144205
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated...
The Art of Seeing Things
AuthorJohn Burroughs
ISBN0815606788
A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of his writing to include religion, philosophy,...
A Year in the Maine Woods
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0201489392
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut...
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
AuthorTheodore Roosevelt
ISBN0803289138
No American president has been closer to the working life of the West than Theodore Roosevelt. From 1884 to 1886 he built up his ranch on the Little Missouri in Dakota Territory, accepting the inevitable toil and hardships. He met the unique characters of the Bad Lands—mountain men, degenerate buffalo...
The Sheltering Desert
AuthorHenno Martin
ISBN0868521507
Threatened with Internment for the duration of World War II, two young German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, sought refuge in the Namib Desert and lived a Robinson Crusoe existence for two and a half years. How they mastered their situation, what they did, thought and observed are the subject...
Between a Rock and a White Blaze: Searching for Significance on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorJulie Urbanski
Four years removed from her first long-distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, Julie, aka Stopwatch, is ready to embark on another thru-hike, this time following the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail, a 2181 mile continuous footpath from Georgia to Maine. She is accompanied by her husband, Matt,...
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...
Northern Farm
AuthorHenry Beston
ISBN0805030921
Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring, and the quiet of an early summer morning, Beston brings the reader into an inescapable alliance with the natural world. He translates the philosophy of the Maine farmer into terms as applicable in Manhattan...
Birds of America
AuthorJohn James Audubon
ISBN1566491959
Most all of the North American birds are here...some people believe that true American art began with Audubon?! What a treat it must have been to see the now extinct Carolina parakeet and the most likely extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which recently involved a massive manhunt here in Arkansas and...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
AuthorJonathan Rosen
ISBN0374186308
Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher

John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As...
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...
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
AuthorAlix Kates Shulman
ISBN0865476977
A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author

At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone...
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