Nature Writing
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Stalking the Wild Asparagus
by Euell Gibbons
An imaginative approach to cooking, offering numerous recipes for main dishes and accompaniments made from wild berries, roots, nuts, and leaves
Last Child In the Woods
by Richard Louv
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder is a 2005 book by author Richard Louv that documents decreased exposure of children to nature in American society and how this "nature-deficit disorder" harms children and society. The book examines research and concludes that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults.
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 non-fiction book written by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around Leopold's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin and his thoughts on developing a "land ethic," it was edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death from a heart attack. The collection of essays is considered to be a landmark book in the American conservation movement.
Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
Previous ed.: London : Cape, 1975.
Property of Associated Students. This item may be checked out from the AS Environmental Center, VU 424.
Property of Associated Students. This item may be checked out from the AS Environmental Center, VU 424.
The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Finalist for the National Book Award 2002 In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their...
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Sand Rivers
by Peter Matthiessen
"In late 1979, the writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen and the wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick joined a safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest yet least known strongholds of wild animals left on earth. Sand Rivers is their beautiful account of a remarkable trip into this quintessential East African wilderness."
Walden
by Thoreau- Henry David/ McKibben- Bill
From the book:When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning...
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The Good Life Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years Of Self-Sufficient Living
by Helen and Nearing Scott Nearing
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Wildflowers
by Nancy C Olmstead, Susan Rayfield, Carol Nehring William a Niering
Survival Wisdom & Know How
by Cc the Editors Of Stackpole Books
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475) and index.
National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Wildflowers
by William a ;Olmstead, Nancy C Niering
Nature Writing Books & Ephemera
Facing the Wave
by Ehrlich, Gretel
Gretel Ehrlich is the author of This Cold Heaven, The Future of Ice, and The Solace of Open Spaces, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She lives in Wyoming.
Farm Anatomy
by Rothman, Julia
Uses drawings, instructions, and information to describe how to live on farm, including compost, nutrients in the soil, farm structures, edible crops, farm animals, bread-making, cuts of pork, pressure canning, quilts, and spinning yarn.
