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10 best books like The Solace of Open Spaces (Gretel Ehrlich): Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Practice of the Wild, The Sound of Mountain Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, The Land of Little Rain, Where Rivers Change Direction, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town, Claiming Ground, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, Sex and the River Styx

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....
Practice of the Wild
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0865474540
The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder’s work and thought,...
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...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
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...
Where Rivers Change Direction
AuthorMark Spragg
ISBN1573228257
It is a voice that echoes off canyon walls, springs from the rush of rivers, thunders from the hooves of horses. It belongs to award-winner Mark Spragg, and it's as passionate and umcompromising as the wilderness in northwest Wyoming in which he was born: the largest block of unfenced wilderness in...
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...
Claiming Ground
AuthorLaura Bell
ISBN0307272885
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest...
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0679752560
Williams often writes about things I care quite a bit about: Utah's natural beauty and/or quirky culture; environmental activism; birds; mythology; traveling; Edward Abbey; water & hiking & animals in the wild. She writes about the trails I walk on, the mountains I climb, the rivers I traverse....
Sex and the River Styx
AuthorEdward Hoagland
ISBN1603583378
Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in...
Winter: Notes from Montana
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0395611504
They were seeking a place to winter in the West, a secluded retreat where he could write and she could paint. Bass and his friend Elizabeth discovered the Yaak valley in northwest Montana. It was remote -- with no electricity or phone service, only erratic radio reception, and reachable by a gravel-and-dirt...
Abbey's Road
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0452265649
You are about to visit some of the most exciting places on earth. Not the sort of excitement that makes morning headlines or the nightly news. Instead it is the excitement that comes from experiencing the natural world as it always has been and should be, and seeing human beings living in tune with its subtlest...
About This Life
AuthorBarry Lopez
Once, when asked for advice on how to become a writer, Lopez found himself replying: "Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This collection of essays stems directly from that philosophy. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored...
The Night Country
AuthorLoren Eiseley
ISBN0803267355
Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley’s essays in...
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