Encounters with the Archdruid34 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977 conservation or preservation + thought provoking + McPhee's Best Work - Still Relevant Today + Encounters with the Archdruid             Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge24 reviews Ed Regis Basic Books, 1991 Cool stuff, marred by smartass tone: 4.6 stars + Jumping Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle might be one of the saner ideas in this book + WILD! + Great reportage with a wink and a guffaw + Regis loves these guys.             Basin and Range15 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982 GREAT BOOK- BASIN AND RANGE + Brilliant organizational idea, great information + Basin and Range - Get this book! + Very interesting for lay people interested in geology + There's more to Nevada than Las Vegas..........             Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place40 reviews Terry Tempest Williams Vintage, 1992 Nothing Unnatural About It; It's Sacred + Excellent read + Ed Abbey called her "Tempest" + This verse unlocks the heart. + If you have been affected by cancer it is worth reading!!!             Always Coming Home (California Fiction)19 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin University of California Press, 2001 Predicting, or observing? + An Amazing Piece of Work!! + One of her best + It's Hard to Know What I Think + Deserves a Much Wider Audience             Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition94 reviews Marc Reisner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993 Ahead of its time + Outstanding + Highly Recommended This was a return engagement to "Cadillac Desert", as I had read the original in the 1980s, amazed at the time, considering it a premier example of thorough history and analysis in a subject about which few people knew much at all. What could have been a "dry" subject was actually quite gripping ...             Assembling California21 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994 The Prose of Rock and Faultlines + Setting the Benchmark for Science Writing + Explaining the World: A Joy to Read + No index, please + Bravo!             Red Mars362 reviews Kim Stanley Robinson Spectra, 1993 This epic novel is insanely good. + Intelligent and insightful Amazing, amazing book. The depth and breadth of the decades-long plot, the huge cast of vivid and distinctive characters, and the novel's hard science foundation combine make this the best book I have read in years. Many, many years.             Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)150 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 "For lack of a keystone... + A Great American Novel + Intriguing, but not maybe not for every reader + It's difficult but worth it             Wild Life: A Novel23 reviews Molly Gloss Simon & Schuster, 2000 Thrilling, earthy. + A rich and rewarding read This story is sheer joy on so many levels. The protagonist, Charlotte, is a 35 yr old educated and independent widow with 5 sons, living in the pioneer outbacks in the Washington/Oregon area 100 years ago. She's managed to support her family writing "minor" romantic novels. When her housekeeper's ...             City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles31 reviews Mike Davis Vintage, 1992 Not a book to be quickly written off + Rotten World + The Cassandra of Post-Liberal America at his best I'd just like to offer a voice of temperance after reading a number of the reviews here. The boogeyman mentions of Davis' "Marxist" leanings are worthy of the McCarthy hearings. The mock citations of the type "All the other books I read in the field are much better" are proof of the reviewers' ...             Medieval in LA: A Fiction5 reviews Jim Paul Counterpoint, 1996 The Age of Faith confronts the Age of Reason in modern L.A + For the ponderer This little book is a gem. Subtitled 'A Fiction', it isn't clear what is really fictionalized. Nothing actually happens here. The narrator, someone named Jim - like the author - leaves San Francisco - where the author lives - to visit friends in L.A. for the weekend. They see an art show, go to ...             Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge24 reviews Ed Regis Basic Books, 1991 Cool stuff, marred by smartass tone: 4.6 stars + Jumping Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle might be one of the saner ideas in this book + WILD! + Great reportage with a wink and a guffaw + Regis loves these guys.             City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles31 reviews Mike Davis Vintage, 1992 Not a book to be quickly written off + Rotten World + The Cassandra of Post-Liberal America at his best I'd just like to offer a voice of temperance after reading a number of the reviews here. The boogeyman mentions of Davis' "Marxist" leanings are worthy of the McCarthy hearings. The mock citations of the type "All the other books I read in the field are much better" are proof of the reviewers' ...             Medieval in LA: A Fiction5 reviews Jim Paul Counterpoint, 1996 The Age of Faith confronts the Age of Reason in modern L.A + For the ponderer This little book is a gem. Subtitled 'A Fiction', it isn't clear what is really fictionalized. Nothing actually happens here. The narrator, someone named Jim - like the author - leaves San Francisco - where the author lives - to visit friends in L.A. for the weekend. They see an art show, go to ...             Assembling California21 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994 The Prose of Rock and Faultlines + Setting the Benchmark for Science Writing + Explaining the World: A Joy to Read + No index, please + Bravo!             Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place40 reviews Terry Tempest Williams Vintage, 1992 Nothing Unnatural About It; It's Sacred + Excellent read + Ed Abbey called her "Tempest" + This verse unlocks the heart. + If you have been affected by cancer it is worth reading!!!             Basin and Range15 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982 GREAT BOOK- BASIN AND RANGE + Brilliant organizational idea, great information + Basin and Range - Get this book! + Very interesting for lay people interested in geology + There's more to Nevada than Las Vegas..........             Encounters with the Archdruid34 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977 conservation or preservation + thought provoking + McPhee's Best Work - Still Relevant Today + Encounters with the Archdruid             Red Mars362 reviews Kim Stanley Robinson Spectra, 1993 This epic novel is insanely good. + Intelligent and insightful Amazing, amazing book. The depth and breadth of the decades-long plot, the huge cast of vivid and distinctive characters, and the novel's hard science foundation combine make this the best book I have read in years. Many, many years.