Recommended Reads for Broadness

Science, politics, poetry, and memoir intermingle in the literature of wilderness. Here are a few of our favorites.

The links in the following list sometimes lead to the author’s website or foundation, book reviews, or blogspots. And sometimes they lead to bookstores (like Amazon,  Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, or university presses) because they usually have good information about the book. These store links in no way indicate our preference for book outlets! (Just so you know.)

• Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us
• Craig Childs, Stone Desert, a Naturalist’s Exploration of Canyonlands National Park
• Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski & Pete Myers, Our Stolen Future
• Marla Cone, Silent Snow  (There is also a film of the same name that looks quite interesting.)
• Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage, the Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition
• Annie Dillard, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
• Dianne Dumanoski, The End of the Long Summer
• Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
• Michael Grunwald, The Swamp
• James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren
• Joseph Krutch, The Desert Year
• Anne LaBastille, Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness  (Obituary)
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
• Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods
• James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia
• David McCally, The Everglades: An Environmental History
• Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone, Imagination and the loss of the Wild and Raven’s Exile
• S. Noll & D. Tegeder, Ditch of Dreams
• Craig Pittman, Manatee Insanity and Paving Paradise
• James Lawrence Powell, Dead Pool, Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West
• John Wesley Powell, The Exploration of the Colorado River
• Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, the American West and Its Disappearing Water
• Richard Shelton, Going Back to Bisbee
• Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
• Susan J. Tweit, Seasons in the Desert
• Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
• Joy Williams, Ill Nature
• Terry Tempest Williams, Red and Refuge
• Howard G. Wilshire, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett, The American West at Risk, Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery,  Textbook/Reference
• George Wuerthner, ed. Thrillcraft, the Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation and with Mollie Matteson eds., Welfare Ranching, the Subsidized Destruction of the American West
• Ann H.  Zwinger, The Nearsighted Naturalist,  Run, River Run, and Wind in the Rock, the Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah