Travels in Alaska

7 best books like Travels in Alaska (John Muir): Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures, Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier, The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, Heart Earth, American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, The Tyranny of Metrics

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Author	Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN	0679740244

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...

The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

Author	Lee Stetson
ISBN	0939666758

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. Each included adventure has been selected to show the extent to which Muir courted and faced danger, i.e. lived "wildly, " throughout his life. From the famous avalanche ride off the...

Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Author	Mark Adams
ISBN	1101985100

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition.

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds...

The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics

Author	Ivars Peterson
ISBN	0805071598

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...

Heart Earth

Author	Ivan Doig
ISBN	0156031086

Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this...

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

Author	Dan Flores
ISBN	0700622276

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these...

The Tyranny of Metrics

Author	Jerry Z. Muller
ISBN	0691174954

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government

Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards...