is there a burzum of nature's geat cathedrals?

rachel carson, but she's a bit different

― O⎠o⎠O⎠o⎠O (roxymuzak), Friday, November 26, 2010 3:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I tried reading Silent Spring once and after 3 or 4 pages I was like whoahhh, what a SNOOZE! I got the gist by then anyway.

Roxy, there are a few really great British nature writers at the moment:

Robert Macfarlane (Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places)
Roger Deakin (Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees)
Richard Mabey (The Unofficial Countryside, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees)
Mark Cocker (Crow Country)
Jay Griffiths (Wild: An Elemental Journey)
Kathleen Jamie (Findings)

Would also recommend Barry Lopez (Arctic Dreams)

Oh good thread idea. I'm pretty interested in this as well.

I read Silent Spring for an environmental health class and I found it so boring that I struggled to finish it but I'm sure I've mentioned here before that I have a really hard time finishing books that I'm not really into.

THANKS for those recommendations, Nick!

Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire sounds like it would fit in here.

Can't beat the Wainwright guides to the Lakes imo.

Several letters, and even petitions, from Great Gable enthusiasts have been sent in asking me to do Book Seven next after Book Four, and Book Five last. What a frightfully untidy suggestion! It springs from a generally accepted view, of course, that there is nothing 'back o'Skiddaw' worth exploring. I want to go and find out. There is a big tract of lonely fells here, wild and desolate; but this is immortal ground, the John Peel country, and I rely further on a centuries-old saying that 'Calabeck Fells are worth all England else.' A land rich with promise, surely!"

One more good one, more along the lines of Rachael Carson, but totally readable:

David Quammen - The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions

lol. we already talked about it, sleeve

how did i not mention that i love william bartram

wallace stegner?
page stegner?