 | Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez
Buy used from: £6.50 The book that started it off for me. Lopez at his best.
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 | The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology by M Oelschlaeger
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £9.65 Intellectually heavy. Excellent review of philosophical relationship between man and nature over time, but unfortunately limited to a western judeo-christian viewpoint
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| What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
Buy used from: £23.95 Wendell Berry writes with compassion and understanding, especially on the place of community and agriculture in modern society
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| The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Buy used from: £0.01 Jacques Cousteau talking about scuba diving around the world
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 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Buy used from: £0.49 Superb, crazy transcendental writing
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 | Nature's Diary (Penguin Nature Library) by Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Prishvin
Buy used from: £0.01 A little known superb short book about the Russian forests and the hunters who lived there
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 | The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £6.82 Steinbeck on a marine biology trip. Brilliant travelogue with asides into conservation, anthropology and holism.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.19 Classic book. On a motorbike through the American landscape.
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 | Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder
Buy used from: £2.90 60s beatnik, now a guru on nature
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 | Desert Solitaire by Abbey
Buy used from: £7.50 A season in Arches National Park before the advent of industrial tourism
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| Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
Levi writing with grace on a wide variety of subjects
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