The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana
10 best books like The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana (Rick Bass): The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River, The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802138888 |
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery...
| Author | Amy Irvine |
| ISBN | 0865477035 |
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...
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0805078916 |
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist
Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
| Author | Ellen Meloy |
| ISBN | 0816522936 |
More than a century after John Wesley Powell launched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river manager. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it home, and...
Oh boy, this book got me thinking... I mean really thinking hard... like contemplating on things around me for hours. In my first year living in a quiet village and very connected to the mother nature, I guess I kind of needed Haines' insight. Maybe that's why my hubby recommended this book to me so strongly....
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684835096 |
Passage From Book:
Personal ethics involves the drawing of lines: I will go as far as this boundary, here, but I will not go beyond. I will defend myself against physical menace but only pacifically. I will fight if attacked but I won't kill. I will kill if my family is threatened but I won't aggress....
| Author | Doug Peacock |
| ISBN | 0910055998 |
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....
| Author | Stephen R. Palumbi |
| ISBN | 1597264350 |
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial...
| Author | Barbara Hurd |
| ISBN | 0618215123 |
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In...
| Author | Susan Hand Shetterly |
| ISBN | 1565126181 |
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...
This was a reread of a book I read about 10 years ago. It has so many bookmarks to important passages, I have to laugh. I think I may not have remembered how important it was to me because he does a lot of describing his hunting, which I have to admit scares me, I could never kill another living animal other than...
In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays...
| Author | Peter Steinhart |
| ISBN | 0679743871 |
As wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity,...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0826309690 |
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate...
| Author | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| ISBN | 0156004615 |
Why is this book not famous? I stumbled across it in a used bookstore, and anyway I am educated now.
"All along the McKenzie River Trail, there must be things we do not see, because they have no names. If we knew a word for the dark spaces between pebbles on the river bottom, if we had a name for the nests...
| Author | David James Duncan |
| ISBN | 1578050499 |
In this remarkable collection of essays, David James Duncan, award-winning author of "The River Why, "braids his contemplative, activist, and rhapsodic voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies...
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 0520220668 |
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...
| Author | Alston Chase |
| ISBN | 0156720361 |
This book makes me not want to work for the Parks Service (a real possibility) and yet I very much wonder how much bias is there. The author's tone is relentlessly resentful of what he sees as an overblown bureaucracy. While some of the decisions the NPS made in Yellowstone are truly horrific, i.e. the actual...
| Author | Wade Davis |
| ISBN | 1610910206 |
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,...
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...
| Author | Scott Russell Sanders |
Scott Russell Sanders spent his childhood in Portage County, growing up on the grounds of the Ravenna Arsenal -- he remembers it as "a paradise of bombs" -- then living during his high school years on a rural homestead that no longer exists; it was part of the acreage drowned by the federal government for...
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0140109072 |
Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation and wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and elk and prairie dogs, and eagles falling out of the sky. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures...
