Stories from the Country of Lost Borders (American Women Writers Series) Mary Hunter Austin Rutgers University Press, 1987             High Sierra of California3 reviews Gary Snyder Heyday Books, 2005 howl at the moon + I love this book + stunning hop up and down in your Teva sandals. Wade the great streams as they roar over round stones down from ancient peaks... dance the silver dance of the wild rainbow... but find a place in your ultralight backpack for this book. It deserves a place next to that bag of peanuts, your titanium cup; worth ...             The Mountains of California5 reviews John Muir Sierra Club Books, 1989 Muir, from Shasta to San Diego, but mostly in the Sierras. + Sensuous detail and immediacy + What inspiration... + the world of muir             My First Summer in the Sierra15 reviews John Muir Mariner Books, 1998 Discovering the Range of Light + A reluctant write + Nature is the only gardener able to do work so fine + This Is John Muir's Finest Book             Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)3 reviews Mark Twain University of California Press, 2002 ROUGHING IT + A COMIC GENIUS This "Mark Twain Project" paperback edition of ROUGHING IT is by far the best version for most readers. It is an excellent value. The 200 pages of "Explanatory Notes" at the end, add greatly to the modern reader's understanding of the 1860's "Wild West". The Early Western Mining Frontier comes ...             The Practice of the Wild: Essays6 reviews Gary Snyder Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003 dream a bear's nostrils and wake up at home + Excellent work that will stand the test of time + An OUTSTANDING book to find our way back from complete devastation will require that we listen to those who have known the way home a long time - gary snyder introduces us to that knowledge in these essays - this book will be read as long as there are people who read books as we know them - may that be a very long ...             The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and ...1 review David Wyatt Cambridge University Press, 1990 I'm giving this a 3.... ....even though it is well-written for two reasons. The first is the cost. The book is no larger than a moderate-sized hardback. It's not even three hundred pages long. The second reason is what I see as a fatal conceptual flaw. There is much of interest here about the relationship between ...             Turtle Island (A New Directions Book)3 reviews Gary Snyder New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1974 Snyder's best work + Warm steamy wood, a spicy stew, clear running water, ... + Poetry and a museum piece of the 70's Even three decades after its publication which won for Gary Snyder the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, this text of poems and essays remains a classic of 20th-century American poetry and environmental literature. I look forward to teaching it again in a college classroom later this winter and ...             The Land of Little Rain (Modern Library Classics) Mary Austin Modern Library, 2003 “Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares “such news of the land, of its trails and ...             Treasury of the Sierra Nevada1 review Mark Twain Walt Whitman, David Brower John Muir, ... Wilderness Press, 1983 A good bood about the written history of the Sierra Nevadas A good read about the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. The book is a collection of short stories assembled by Mr. Reid that detail various aspects of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I expecially enjoyed the short stories and articles by Dan DeQuille, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain. Mr. Reid preceeds ...             The Dharma Bums150 reviews Jack Kerouac Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976 Back to the future + Tresure Found + Beatizen + Traveling, Hiking, Buddhism             Hardy Californians: A Woman's Life with Native Plants1 review Lester Rowntree University of California Press, 2006 If You Love Your Plants and the Worlds They Thrive In, Buy This Book! First published in 1936, this seminal guide to California's native plants is a must-have for any gardener, Californian or not, who wants to work with rather than against nature in the garden. Lester Rowntree spent her summers exploring the back roads, desert washes, and mountain trails of ...             One Day on Beetle Rock (California Legacy Book)5 reviews Sally Carrighar Heyday Books, 2002 Exploring the mystery of existence + A foray into animal consciousness + Puts you in the animals' shoes + A wonderful book with keen observations of animal behavior + This is a beautiful book illustrating the web of life             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!             The Dharma Bums150 reviews Jack Kerouac Penguin (Non-Classics), 1976 Back to the future + Tresure Found + Beatizen + Traveling, Hiking, Buddhism             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!             Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)3 reviews Mark Twain University of California Press, 2002 ROUGHING IT + A COMIC GENIUS This "Mark Twain Project" paperback edition of ROUGHING IT is by far the best version for most readers. It is an excellent value. The 200 pages of "Explanatory Notes" at the end, add greatly to the modern reader's understanding of the 1860's "Wild West". The Early Western Mining Frontier comes ...             The Practice of the Wild: Essays6 reviews Gary Snyder Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003 dream a bear's nostrils and wake up at home + Excellent work that will stand the test of time + An OUTSTANDING book to find our way back from complete devastation will require that we listen to those who have known the way home a long time - gary snyder introduces us to that knowledge in these essays - this book will be read as long as there are people who read books as we know them - may that be a very long ...             The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and ...1 review David Wyatt Cambridge University Press, 1990 I'm giving this a 3.... ....even though it is well-written for two reasons. The first is the cost. The book is no larger than a moderate-sized hardback. It's not even three hundred pages long. The second reason is what I see as a fatal conceptual flaw. There is much of interest here about the relationship between ...             The Mountains of California5 reviews John Muir Sierra Club Books, 1989 Muir, from Shasta to San Diego, but mostly in the Sierras. + Sensuous detail and immediacy + What inspiration... + the world of muir