Help me find vivid books about man in nature. 0comments
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Help me find books of a particular genre or collection of comparable genres. Specifically books on living in or traveling through nature that have visual picturesque language about the landscape/ ...
I just finished reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey about his summer spent working in a ranger cottage in the middle of Arches National Park in Utah. While much of the book is preachy about the need for conservation (animals good people bad) he did an excellent job defining the area and the associated ecology in very vivid easily visualized terms - love you were actually there.
Randomly a month or so ago I also read Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac which also had two scenes similar to this where he worked a summer (similar to Abbey) on a mountaintop all alone watching for fires in a park in Washington state and a hike of his with friends in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains.
Now these are two incredibly dissimilar in theme books so while they have the one thing I like in common they wouldn't normally be put together. When I do my best to search for these "kinds" of writings in Google or Yahoo! I invariably get trip guides which isn't what I am looking for. Even Amazon's frequently helpful "books of similar type" and "listmania" isn't doing the job.
They don't have to be about national parks in the US. I would love some that receive place anywhere in the world in any type of terrain like long as it's natural and described in good detail.
Thanks!
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