 | Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.07 The best all-around nature book ever written. With just a spattering of Abbey's best wit and humor.
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 | Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.25 What an experience the author had spending a winter in Idaho's Bitterroot wilderness. Reading this book is the next best thing to actually experiencing it.
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 | Cry of the Kalahari by Cordelia Dykes Owens
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.53 Couple just packs up and moves to the Kalahari to study wildlife.
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 | Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.98 You'll never take water for granted again after reading this book.
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 | Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness by Paul Schullery
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $9.75 If you love Yellowstone, you'll love this book.
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 | Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.80 A collection of 14 essays about events in the life of the author who grew up on a dude ranch just 8 miles east of Yellowstone National Park's east entrance. Superb nature writing.
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 | Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.88 The Grizzly Bear: My favorite animal. Great book by the inspiration for Hayduke.
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 | Guardians of Yellowstone: An Intimate Look at the Challenges of Protecting America's Foremost Wilderness Park by Dan R. Sholly
Buy used from: $0.32 Learn what a tough, but rewarding, job park rangers have.
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 | Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park by Alston Chase
Buy new: $20.77 / Used from: $0.98 Very interesting book, even though a good portion of it is just a bunch of hooey.
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 | The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
Buy used from: $0.01 An explanation of the looming danger our civilization faces if drastic action is not taken now.
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 | Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat
Buy new: $10.18 / Used from: $1.20 Great (true?) story of a man living alone in the arctic with a pack of wolves.
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 | Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.45 The endless debate between development and conservation comes alive in the form of arch-rivals Floyd Dominy and David Brower.
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 | The Control of Nature by John McPhee
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.95 Three amazing stories of heroic, yet ultimately futile, efforts to beat Mother Nature.
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