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Nature
and the outdoors
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| Aldo Leopold
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A Sand County
Almanac
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Game
Management
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| First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
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Published in 1953,
and a benchmark book by the father of modern wildlife biology. A
must-read for anyone who want to understand the complexities of wildlife
management.
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| Edwin Way Teale
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A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm
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Dune Boy
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The Wilderness World
of John Muir
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| Edwin Way Teale won
both the Pulitzer Prize and the John Burroughs medal for distinguished
nature writing. His work ranks with the best, that of Thoreau, Muir,
Burroughs and Olson. In A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm he
gives us not only his most personal writing but some of his finest.
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The early years of
one of America's premiere naturalists. Teale relates vivid images of
growing up in northern Indiana dune country. The rural Indiana of
Teale's youth has been submerged by development, but it lives on in this
book.
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Edwin Way Teale has collected here the best of Muir's writing, selected from all of his major works, including MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA and TRAVELS IN ALASKA. THE WILDERNESS WORLD OF JOHN MUIR provides "reading that is often magnificent, thrilling, exciting, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring" (Kirkus Reviews).
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More from Edwin Way Teale:
North With the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey With the North American Spring (American Seasons, 1st Season)
Journey into Summer: A Naturalist's Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Summer (American Seasons)
Autumn Across America
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter (American Seasons)
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| Hal Borland
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Beyond Your Doorstep
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This Hill, This Valley
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When The Legends Die
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"This is primarily a book about the outdoors, the natural world," writes Hal Borland. "It is primarily about the countryside, not the wilderness; countrysides are common and within reach of almost everyone."
Countrysides are still just beyond your own doorsteps, where meadows, woods, riverbanks and roadsides wait, each of them filled with everyday wonders.
(from the back cover)
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In the early,
1950's, Hal Borland and his wife moved from New York City to a farm in
northern Connecticut. This book chronicles their first year on that
farm, including details of the plant life in the area, and of the birds,
mammals, and other creatures that shared the farm with them.
Highly recommended.
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When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to return to the white man's world, to the alien laws that had condemned his father.
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More from Hal Borland:
Penny: The Story of a Free-Soul Basset Hound
High, Wide and Lonesome
The Golden Circle: A Book of Months
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