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This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

10 best books like This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (Ivan Doig): Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Wolf Willow, Angle of Repose, Two in the Far North, Travels in Alaska, Remembering Laughter, The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, Claiming Ground, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140159940
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Washington politics. We witness the successes and...
Wolf Willow
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0141185015
Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow: A History,...
Angle of Repose
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140169300
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface...
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,...
Travels in Alaska
AuthorJohn Muir
ISBN0781201543
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of Alaska, irresistibly drawn to its awe-inspiring glaciers and its wild menagerie of bears, bald eagles, wolves, and whales. Half-poet and half-geologist, he recorded his experiences and reflections...
Remembering Laughter
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140252401
Margaret Stuart, the proud wife of a prosperous Iowa farmer, sets high standards for herself and others. Happy in her marriage, she tries to look the other way when her genial husband, Alec, takes to the bottle. When Elspeth, Margaret's sister, comes to live with them, the young woman is immediately...
The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
AuthorIvars Peterson
ISBN0805071598
In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating, landscape of modern mathematics. Now the journey continues in a new, updated edition that includes all the...
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...
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
AuthorPete Fromm
ISBN0312422725
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
AuthorDouglas W. Smith
ISBN1592288863
Rear cover notes: "In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. With recently...
Breaking Clean
AuthorJudy Blunt
ISBN0375701303
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.

Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to "rope...
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
AuthorSarah Arthur
ISBN0310353408
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling. A Light So Lovely tells the story of the woman at the center of it all -...
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