Celebrate 50 years of wilderness with a good book!
Here are some titles recommended by Montana librarians. (** indicates multiple recommendations)
Non-fiction:
Abbey, Edward
Desert solitaire
Austin, Mary
The Land of Little Rain
Bartlett, Richard A
Great Surveys of the American West
Bass, Rick (selected titles)
The Wild Marsh: Seasons in Montana
Blehm, Eric
The Last Season
Brinkley, Douglas
Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Bryson, Bill
**A Walk in the Woods
Byl, Christine
Dirt Work
Connors, Philip
Field notes from a wilderness lookout by Philip Connors
Dillard, Annie
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Douglas, Chadwick
The Wolverine Way
Egan, Timothy
**The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Ehrlich, Gretel
The Solace of Open Spaces
Frederick, Carl
The Great Plains in Transition
Fromm, Pete
**Indian Creek Chronicles
Glover, James M
**A Wilderness Original: The Life of Bob Marshall
Hagan, Pat
Seasonal Disorder
Haskell, David
The Forest Unseen
Heinrich, Bernd
Life Everlasting
Summer World
Winter World
Hoover, Helen
**The Years of the Forest
Jenkins, Peter
A Walk Across America
The Walk West
Kerouac, Jack
Dharma Bums
Krakauer, Jon
**Into the Wild
Laycock, George
The Mountain Men: the dramatic history and lore of the first frontiersman
Leopold, Aldo
**A Sand County Almanac
Lopez, Barry (anything by Lopez)
Crossing Open Ground
**Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
**Of Wolves and Men
Louve, Richard
Last Child in the Woods
MacLean, Norman
**Young Men and Fire
The Ranger, the Cook & the Hole in the Sky
Marshall, Robert, and George Marshall
Alaska wilderness: exploring the Central Brooks Range
McMillion, Scott
Mark of the Grizzly
McPhee, John
Encounters with the Archdruid
Mowat, Farley (selected titles)
Muir, John (anything by Muir)
The Mountains of California
**My First Summer in the Sierra
Murie, Margaret E, Murie, Olaus Johan, and Williams, Terry Tempest
Two in the Far North.
Nash, Roderick
**Wilderness and the American Mind
Parratt, Mark W
Fate is a Mountain
Peacock, Doug (selected titles)
Petersen, Thomas Reed and Proulx, Annie
A Road Runs Through It: Reviving Wild Places
Preston, Richard
The Wild Trees
Punke, Michael
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnel, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
Ripley, Richard
The Ridgerunner: Elusive loner of the wilderness
Russell, Jerry and Renny
On the Loose
Schaller, George B
Stones of silence: journeys in the Himalayas
Smith, Diane
Letters from Yellowstone
Snyder, Gary
Practice of the Wild: Essays
Earth House Hold
Stone, Irving
Men to Match My Mountains: The opening of the far west 1840-1900
Strayed, Cheryl
Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Thoreau, Henry David
**Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Wettstein, B L
Dream Chasers of the West
Parrat, Mark W
Fate is a Mountain
Wheeler, Sarah
Terra Incognita
Fiction:
Atwood, Margaret
Oryx and Crake
Year of the Flood
MaddAddam
deWitt, Patrick
The Sisters Brothers
Boyle, T C
Drop City
Faulkner, William
Big Woods
Lopez, Barry (anything by Lopez)
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven
River Notes: The Dance of Herons
Winter Count
Crow and Weasel
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
MacLean, Norman
**A River Runs Through It
Welch, James
Fool's Crow
Youth and children fiction and non-fiction:
Arnosky, Jim (any book by Arnosky)
Art, Henry W.
Woodswalk: Peepers, Porcupines & Exploding Puff Balls! What You’ll See, Hear & Smell When Exploring the Woods
Chin, Jason
Redwoods
Fendler, Don, Egan, Joseph B
Lost! On a Mountain in Maine
Ingold, Jeanette
**The Big Burn
Hitch
George, Jean Craighead
**My Side of the Mountain
Gerber, Carole
Winter Trees
London, Jack
**Call of the Wild
White Fang
Love, Donna and Turley, Joyce Mihran
The Totally Out There Guide to Glacier National Park
Love, Donna and Bersani, Shennen
The Glaciers are Melting!
Love, Donna and Wald, Christina
The Wild Life of Elk
Henry the impatient Heron
Mikaelsen, Ben (series)
Touching Spirit Bear
Mowat, Farley (selected titles)
Paulsen, Gary (any book by Paulsen)
Hatchet
Shirley, Gayle C
Montana Wildlife: A Beginner’s Field Guide to the State’s Most Remarkable Animals
Yolen, Jane
Owl Moon
Other suggestions:
Rockhounding books!
Maybe the Tao Te Ching for something ancient and meditative?
http://www.goodreads.com/genres/wilderness
Wilderness.net bibliography of wilderness-related literature
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