FRONTIER NATURE & ENVIRONMENT: non-fiction
Explore the best non-fiction books on frontier nature and the environment. Discover captivating reads about wilderness, conservation, and adventure in our curated collection.
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The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
The classical study of the ever-expanding American frontier, its influences on the men who settled and governed it, and its indelible stamp on the American …
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous …
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Nature and Selected Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's …
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest …
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A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
The environmental classic that redefined the way we think about the natural world—an urgent call for preservation that’s more timely than ever. “We can place …
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Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
“Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”—Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review “This is not primarily a …
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Tigers and Ice
by Edward Hoagland
Edward Hoagland was legally blind for three years until surgery miraculously changed his life. In this, his first original book published in more than six …
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The Diversity of Life
by Edward O. Wilson
This classic by the distinguished Harvard entomologist tells how life on earth evolved and became diverse, and now, how diversity and life are endangered by …
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. …
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Best of Dee Brown's West
by Dee Brown
A collection of articles tracing the history of the Western frontier from early settlements to the Battle of Wounded Knee.
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Bad Land
by Jonathan Raban
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. • …
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
Documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, …
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Nothing Like It In the World
by Stephen E. Ambrose
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
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Faster
by James Gleick
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most …
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Powershift
by Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax …
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Life on the Screen
by Sherry Turkle
a thorough grounding in psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, the author of The Second Self revisits the dramatic changes in our psychological selves and the ways …
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate …
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The Prize
by Daniel Yergin
Chronicles the history of the oil industry and the forces that have shaped the modern world.