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Group:  Nature Lit ignore
Topic:  nature lit books I'd recommend 0 / 4 read

Aug 16, 2009, 6:26pm (top)Message 1: bfertig

So, classics I would recommend include both fiction and non-fiction
Fiction
Monkey Wrench Gang

Non-fiction
The world without us

Have you got recommendations for the group?

Aug 21, 2009, 6:58pm (top)Message 2: Bobbobthebob

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
-a classic and still pertinent today, especially the land ethic.

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
-especially for the descriptions of climbing Desolation Peak and working as a fire lookout in the middle of nowhere

For a few by British authors that some of you Americans may not have heard of:

The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane - A search for the UK's remaining wild places
Mountains of the Mind also by Robert Macfarlane - a study of human fascination with mountains and montane environments
Wildwood by Roger Deakin - Nature writing loosely based upon a love of trees
Crow Country by Mark Cocker - a study of corvids and particularly the rook

Aug 23, 2009, 6:55am (top)Message 3: sisaruus

Aug 23, 2009, 10:57am (top)Message 4: MarianV

A Country Year Sue Hubbell
Beyond the Aspen Grove Ann Zwinger
Great Possessions David Kline
Wildlife in the Garden Gene Logsdon
Edwin Way Teale's series Autumn across America
North with the Spring Wandering through winter Journey into Summer
Watchers at the Pond Franklin Russell
The Immortal wilderness John Hay
Idle Weeds David Raines Wallace
Backtracking Ted Levin
There is a series of books that comes out yearly The best Science & Nature Writing which is a collection of short essays by various authors.

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Edward Abbey
Mark Cocker
Annie Dillard
Gretel Ehrlich
John Hay
Sue Hubbell
Jack Kerouac
David Kline
Aldo Leopold
Ted Levin
Gene Logsdon
Robert Macfarlane
Juliet Marillier
Ellen Meloy
Franklin Russell
Edwin Way Teale
David Rains Wallace
Alan Weisman
Terry Tempest Williams
Ann Zwinger
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