The Tassajara Recipe Book6 reviews Edward Espe Brown Shambhala, 2000 Every Single Recipe in this Book is Terrific! + Tassajara stuff is incredible!! + Wonderful variety and creativity! + Tassajara Recipe Book + A simply wonderful vegetarian cookbbook             The Maine Woods (Penguin Nature Library)10 reviews Henry David Thoreau Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988 Thoreau's Three Ambitious Adventures in Maine + Helps understand why Maine's wildlife and forest is the way it is. + North Country Meander + Not just another travelogue + Live Like a Philosopher             The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics)3 reviews Kenneth Grahame Penguin Classics, 2005 Read this now! + The Wind in the Willows has provided one hundred years of joy and gentle humor to booklovers True, this book is a classic. But contrary to some other reviews you may read on this site, the book earns its status as a classic. It's a brilliant adventure, and you won't be disappointed.             King Solomon's Mines (Modern Library Classics)52 reviews H. Rider Haggard Modern Library, 2002 A good romp! + Birth of a Genre + A Diamond with many facets + Super Reader             Pieces of the Frame2 reviews John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979 Pieces of the Frame, John McPhee + If You Love McPhee The always excellent McPhee gives us a collection of short pieces on a wide variety of subjects, including the monsters and whisky and Macbeths of Scotland, playing basketball and tennis in England, racing horses, paddling canoes, and several more. My favorite is "The Search for Marvin Gardens," ...             A Canticle for Leibowitz231 reviews Walter M. Miller Jr. Eos, 2006 "Sic transit mundus" + Sci-fi that isn't + Read this book, impress your friends. + Incredible             Runes of the North (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series)2 reviews Sigurd F. Olson University of Minnesota Press, 1997 Enchanting Call of the North + Enchanting Call of the North Olson's use of sensory description is a powerful tool in his writing, particularly Ghost Camps of the North (an essay in Ruins of the North). Olson takes the reader on a fantastic adventure in each and every one of his essays. Not only does he take the reader to various geographical locations, ...             Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold3 reviews Aldo Leopold Northword Pr, 1991 Field Experience + The Heart of Aldo Leopold If your only other exposure to Aldo Leopold is through his Sand County Almanac, this book will likely be a departure from your perception of him. Aldo Leopold was a practicing conservationist; he sustainably extracted valuable things from the land, and gave back to the land in other ways to ...             A Moveable Feast144 reviews Ernest Hemingway Scribner, 1996 The Writer's Life + Hemingway at his Best + Paris of the Lost Generation! + Paris Paris Paris             New Seeds of Contemplation45 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1972 "To hope is to risk frustration. So make up your mind in advance to risk frustration." + An Excellent Gateway to Merton and the Contemplative Life! + Classic, Timeless, Beautiful + Good Challenge for a Contemplative Life             Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia12 reviews Peter Hopkirk University of Massachusetts Press, 1984 Yes Virginia, there really was an Indiana Jones + Another Hopkirk Gem + The silk road revealed + Archeothefts in Central Asia + A Good Book             Siddhartha (Modern Library)4 reviews Hermann Hesse Modern Library, 2006 new rendition of timeless tale + This is an excellent translation + The double whammy + An Old Friend Revisited             Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya2 reviews George B. Schaller Univ of Chicago Pr (T), 1988 Contents: + Poetic account of wildlife and environment in the Himalayas The mountains of the Himalaya, from the lushly forested slopes of Nepal to the barren ranges of Central Asia, offer solitude, enlightenment, and incredible beauty, as well as the brutal reality of barren peaks and wind-torn slopes and glaciers. They are a lost world of nameless valleys, of people ...             The House of the Spirits11 reviews Isabel Allende Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2005 A book you will read over and over again... + hip hip horray for house of the spirits + Allende's Masterpiece + se los recomiendo!!!             Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)214 reviews Annie Dillard Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 The result of relentless observation + Five Stars--Seen Clearly I first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my younger sister for a class she was taking. She wasn't getting much from the book. But as I read it to her, I realized how supreme this book is among American Lit. Dillard's book is the result of ...             The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)313 reviews Ray Bradbury Spectra, 1984 A great indroduction to Bradbury's work. + Youthful Perspective + Classic Bradbury + Masterpiece             Nine Stories157 reviews J.D. Salinger Back Bay Books, 2001 Salinger Hits Nine Home Runs. + Salinger's Little Worlds + Nine Stories More Than Just Bananafish + Nine glories             The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)18 reviews Thomas Merton Shambhala, 2004 Like a fine wine ... + Thomas Merton's Best: The Way of Chuang Tzu + The way of Chuang Tzu + THE INNER LAW             The Earthsea Trilogy6 reviews Ursula K. Le Guin Houghton Mifflin, 2005 Some of the best fantasy written. + classic adult fantasy + Utterly Consuming + Long enjoyed, still wonderful!             Childhood's End286 reviews Arthur C. Clarke Del Rey, 1987 Wow + Moving Sci-Fi work + A feel-good doomsday scenario This is an amazing, shocking book. Like 2001 the movie(and it's inspiration-Clarke's story "The Sentinel"), man encounters alien civilization in a way that is far more fascinating and original than the typical invasion story. I don't won't to say too much. That could ruin the story. This might ...