Whether you're sitting by a lake or a mountain or traveling somewhere to reach a summer destination, it's nice to have a good book along. The Campaign for America's Wilderness staff suggests picking from this baker's dozen of great old and new wild reads. About the first, A Sand County Almanac, executive director Mike Matz says, "From this one little volume, published posthumously, legions of conservationists have derived inspiration, discovered their philosophy of land ethics, and found solace in the lyrical writing.
"Leopold's descriptions of the ‘fierce green fire' in a dying wolf's eyes and the ability to ‘think like a mountain,' as well as his account of sawing though an old oak tree struck down by lightning, are particularly memorable and poignant for their conservation messages."
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold (1949)
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson, (1999)
Buffalo for the Broken Heart, by Dan O'Brien (2001)
Borderline, by Nevada Barr (2009)
Listening Point, by Sigurd Olsen (1958)
Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Lopez (1978)
Our Wilderness, America's Common Ground, by Doug Scott (2009)
The Lost Explorer, by Conrad Anker (1999)
The Sound of Mountain Water, by Wallace Stegner (1997)
The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests, by Linda Underhill (2009)
Wandering Home, by Bill McKibben (2005)
Where the Mountains are Nameless, by Jonathan Waterman (2005)
Wilderness and the American Mind, by Roderick Nash (1967)
