Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness
10 best books like Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness (Doug Peacock): Down the River, The Abstract Wild, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Colorado Wilderness, The Sound of Mountain Water, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, Edward Abbey: A Life, Blue Desert, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Author | Edward Abbey |
ISBN | 0452265630 |
"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.
Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes...
Author | Jack Turner |
ISBN | 0816516995 |
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature—gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us.
How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it,...
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 | Rick Bass |
ISBN | 0395717590 |
Do grizzly bears still wander the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where they have long been considered extinct? If so, can they elude the naturalists determined to prove that these bears, smarter than all other bears, survive in the mountain wilderness? Rick Bass, along with veteran grizzly expert...
Author | Wallace Stegner |
ISBN | 0140266747 |
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...
Author | W.L. Rusho |
ISBN | 1586851640 |
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...
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
Author | Bill McKibben |
ISBN | 0805076271 |
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
Author | James M. Cahalan |
ISBN | 0816522677 |
“The best biography ever about Ed. Cahalan’s meticulous research and thoughtful interviews have made this book the authoritative source for Abbey scholars and fans alike.” —Doug Peacock, author, environmentalist activist and explorer, and the inspiration for Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench...
Author | Charles Bowden |
ISBN | 0816510814 |
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged?
In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has...
Author | Donald Worster |
ISBN | 0195078063 |
When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative...
Author | Scott Weidensaul |
ISBN | 0865476888 |
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Author | Shelton Johnson |
ISBN | 1578051444 |
Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave — but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah...
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
Author | Mark Fiege |
ISBN | 0295991674 |
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical...
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Author | Barry Lopez |
ISBN | 1400075122 |
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
An anthropologist traveling...
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Author | Jared Farmer |
ISBN | 0674027671 |
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...
Author | Pete Fromm |
ISBN | 0312422725 |
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...
Author | Chip Brown |
ISBN | 1573223794 |
An interesting NPR interview with the author led me to this book. It was not as good as the interview itself. In the end this book was killed by the same thing that many books with good writing and a good story are damaged by, I just didn't care.
I felt bad for Guy Watermans kids, thought the wife was...