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10 best books like The Norton Book of Nature Writing (Robert Finch): American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, The Abstract Wild, Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, The Sound of Mountain Water, The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, The Long-Legged House, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1598530208
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries.

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The Abstract Wild
AuthorJack Turner
ISBN0816516995
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us.

How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it,...
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
AuthorJulie Dunlap
ISBN1595347801
Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s...
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
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....
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN1571313060
The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world’s ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human nature play in the problem? Since its inception in 1982, Orion magazine has been a forum for looking beyond the...
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World
AuthorLinda Hogan
A bumper crop of the best writing by women on women and plants

Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired....
Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0910055998
When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock....
The Long-Legged House
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1593760132
First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was award-winner Wendell Berry’s first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays at the heart of...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476888
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Field Notes on Science & Nature
AuthorMichael R. Canfield
ISBN0674057570
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

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Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
AuthorSusan Hand Shetterly
ISBN1565126181
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...
Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
AuthorMichael K. Stone
ISBN1578051533
Our efforts to build a sustainable world cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, children must become “ecologically literate.” The concept of ecological literacy advanced by this book’s creators, the Center...
The Geography of Childhood
AuthorGary Paul Nabhan
ISBN0807085251
In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human...
The Book of Yaak
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395877466
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save...
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
AuthorHenry Nash Smith
ISBN0674939557
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special...
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
AuthorLorraine Anderson
ISBN1400033217
Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the...
Earth House Hold
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0811201953
As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops,...
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
AuthorCheryll Glotfelty
ISBN0820317810
The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing both...
A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place
AuthorHannah Hinchman
ISBN0393318850
To artist-writer-naturalist Hannah Hinchman, the blank pages of a journal are a call to awaken the soul, to celebrate being alive in the world, to get to know both the wilderness of our inmost selves and the "unpredictable and potent" natural world. In the richly illustrated pages of this book, she unfolds...
The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess
AuthorArne Næss
ISBN1582434018
A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologists, philosophers, and activists worldwide. This collection amasses a definitive group of Naess' most important works in which he calls for nonviolent,...
Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
AuthorTimothy Morton
ISBN0674024346
In "Ecology without Nature," Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom...
Ecocriticism
AuthorGreg Garrard
ISBN0415196922
Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau to Disney and BBC nature documentaries. Greg Garrard's animated and accessible...
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