is there a burzum of nature's geat cathedrals?

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?