The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

8 best books like The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World (Emma Marris): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Wolf Tower, Song for the Blue Ocean, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, A Little Hatred, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World, Wolf Queen, Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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...

Wolf Tower

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	0142300306

All her life, Claidi has endured hardship in the House, where she must obey a spoiled princess. Then a golden stranger arrives, living proof of a world beyond the House walls. Claidi risks all to free the charming prisoner and accompanies him across the Waste toward his faraway home. It is a difficult...

Song for the Blue Ocean

Author	Carl Safina
ISBN	0805061223

This incredible book is a searing look at humanity's attitude towards the formerly inexhaustible sea, and I will never be the same after reading it. Parts made me cry hard enough I got a headache. More than once I thought suicide might be a reasonable alternative to using up more of our resources.

I...

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0415908086

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for...

A Little Hatred

Author

Joe Abercrombie

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...

Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World

Author	Lynn Hill
ISBN	0393324338

From the age of thirteen when she began climbing, it was clear Lynn Hill had an unusual gift. Before long she was arguably the best rock climber in the world, establishing routes so bold and difficult that few others could follow. And in 1994, Lynn succeeded on a climb that no one—man or woman—has been...

Wolf Queen

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	0142501875

Claidi is eager to reunite with her fiancé Argul-but when she finally reaches his camp, she finds that someone has been spreading ugly lies about her, and Argul is nowhere to be found. Undaunted, Claidi sets out to search for him. Her quest brings her to the icy threshold of a tower, and within it she encounters...

Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	0525473246

Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she's sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother's crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. Unfortunately, Art's memories of her early life may not be accurate-her...