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10 best books like The Secret Knowledge of Water (Craig Childs): Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Going Back to Bisbee, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals, Two in the Far North, The American West as Living Space, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
AuthorMarc Reisner
ISBN0140178244
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0375725180
The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country's most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America's Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country...
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....
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
AuthorAmy Irvine
ISBN0865477035
Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was...
Going Back to Bisbee
AuthorRichard Shelton
ISBN0816512892
One of America's most distinguished poets now shares his fascination with a distinctive corner of our country. Richard Shelton first came to southeastern Arizona in the 1950s as a soldier stationed at Fort Huachuca. He soon fell in love with the region and upon his discharge found a job as a schoolteacher...
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
AuthorW.L. Rusho
ISBN1586851640
Everett Ruess—a bold teenage adventurer, artist, and writer—tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between 1930 and 1934. At the age of 20, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert. Ruess has become an icon for modern-day...
Two in the Far North
AuthorMargaret E. Murie
This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks,...
The American West as Living Space
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0472063758
"Instead of adapting, as we began to do, we have tried to make country and climate over to fit our existing habits and desires. Instead of listening to the silence, we have shouted into the void. We have tried to make the arid West into what it was never meant to be and cannot remain, the Garden of the World...
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....
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0380711109
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, "River Notes and "Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez...
The Land of Little Rain
AuthorMary Hunter Austin
ISBN0140249192
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders...
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...
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
AuthorJared Farmer
ISBN0674027671
Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it--once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. "On Zion's Mount" tells the story...
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265622
The Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bugs, and mountain lions. In a voice edged with chagrin, Edward Abbey offers a portrait of the American...
Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
AuthorRebecca Solnit
ISBN0520220668
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later—1951—and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U. S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the...
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN1610910206
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s most regulated river drainage, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people. If it ceased flowing,...
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