The Eclectic Reader has always had an outstanding collection of books on nature and the environment. We go out of our way to carry nature writers, past and present, and to acquire books on the flora and fauna of the world and the environmental issues facing us today. More than ever we need to connect with our natural world and preserve it in the face of the devastating removal of environmental protections and climate change.
I posed a question to my Facebook environmentalist friends asking them to name their favorite books on trees. We expanded it to include the environment and nature. Here is the list that emerged from that question:
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Derrick Jensen books
American Canopy by Eric Rutkow
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Buhner
The Dying of the Trees by Charles Little
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Witness Trees: Seasons of Change with a Century Old Oak by Lynda Mapes
The Forest Unseen by David Haskell
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
A Vagabond for Beauty by Everett Ruess
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulff
Winter World by Bernd Heinrich
Climate: A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Cadillac Desert By Marc Reisner
John Muir books
Ansel Adams photography
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
Nine of these titles have either been through the store before or are here now. We have hundreds of others in our nature section.
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