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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
"Unique among survival books...stunning...enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the...
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
Annie Dillard
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."
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The Wild Places (Penguin Original)
Robert Macfarlane
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though were laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earths surface. Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the...
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The Last American Man
Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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...
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Library of America)
Library of America
Library of America
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental...
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Ralph Helfer
Harper Paperbacks
Harper Paperbacks
Modoc is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a small German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant trainer, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each other....
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Wendell Berry
Sierra Club Books
Sierra Club Books
The mid-20th-century environmental crisis that led to important protective legislation in the 1970s, is, to poet/farmer Wendell Berry's mind, also a crisis of character, agriculture, and culture. Because Americans are divorced from the land, they...
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Vintage
Vintage
David Abram's writing casts a spell of its own as he weaves the reader through a meticulously researched work that gently addresses such seemingly daunting topics as where the past and future exist, the relationship between space and time, and how...
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