 | Exploring Natural Mystery: Kamana One
Buy used from: $137.19 A great introduction to the 4-level naturalist program. It's inspiring, challenging, and told in a very personal tone. Highly recommended! Visit www.kamana.org for more info.
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 | North American Wildlife (revised and updated) by Editors of Reader's Digest
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $7.41 A good reference for identifying more than 2000 common species in North America. Drawings are good but information is, necessarily, very basic so you'll need more in-depth guides as well.
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 | National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees--W: Western Region (National Audubon Society Field Guides) by Elbert L. Little
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $2.92 |
 | Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects (Golden Guides) by Herbert Spencer Zim
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Pond Life: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) by George K. Reid
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.23 |
 | Reptiles and Amphibians: Revised and Updated (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) by Herbert S. Zim
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.83 |
 | Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks: Second Edition (Peterson Field Guides (R) Series) by Margaret Elizabeth Murie
Buy used from: $45.42 |
 | A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guide Series) by William H. Burt
Buy used from: $2.12 |
 | A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers: Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent areas (Peterson Field Guides) by Theodore F. Niehaus
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $0.44 |
 | A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants: North America North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guide Series) by Roger Caras
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $10.92 |
 | Western Birds by Roger Tory Peterson
Buy used from: $1.21 |
 | Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska by Jim Pojar
Buy used from: $2.70 |
 | The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds by Paul Ehrlich
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $4.39 |
 | Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $16.99 |
 | A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Christopher Hobbs
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $11.92 |
 | Skulls and Bones: A Guide to the Skeletal Structures and Behavior of North American Mammals by Glenn Searfoss
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.58 |
 | Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills by Thomas J. Elpel
Buy used from: $12.55 Both practical and inspirational. A wonderful book about living in and with nature.
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 | Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $16.99 |
 | Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skill - From the Society of Primitive Technology
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $24.68 |
 | Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology, Second Edition by Emilio F Moran
Buy new: $39.00 / Used from: $1.84 I expected more adaptive cultural strategies from primitive people than modern ecological data. Still, this intro book is based on systems thinking and provides many resources for more in-depth stuff.
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 | The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: $2.69 Some very interesting things to think about, especially the newest chapters. The rest is not always convincing because of the overuse of the 'genes as willing and selfish' metaphor and not enough data
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 | The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.99 A good introduction to evolutionary psychology, although at the end the author exposes his own propaganda.
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 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.37 A great book that shows that even the best physicists are finding that everything in the universe is interrelated and interdependent.
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 | Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.63 |
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