Books like Horizons by Barry Lopez

Bill Bryson humorously chronicles a two–person hike along the Appalachian Trail, mixing lively anecdotes with insightful looks at its history, ecology, and the people who live along the route.

Explore the life and work of environmentalist and writer Edward Abbey, who spent the 1950s as a park ranger in the American Southwest.

Robert Moor’s On Trails explores the science, history, and philosophy of pathways from ant trails to the Internet, revealing how routes shape nature, technology, and our choices.

David Quammen explains island biogeography, the study of species origin and extinction, illustrating how human actions fragment habitats and threaten biodiversity.

Journeying through Nepal’s Dolpo highlands, Peter Matthiessen and biologist George Schaller track the elusive snow leopard while exploring Buddhist spirituality and Himalayan wilderness.

A journey through ancient paths, filled with natural history, literature, and the stories of those who walked them.

Artist, writer, botanist, gardener, naturalist, intrepid wilderness explorer, and self-styled "philosophical pilgrim," William Bartram (1739-1823) was an extraordinary figure in eighteenth-century American life. The first American to devote his entire life to what we would now call the environment, Bartram was the most significant American nature writer before Thoreau and a nature artist who rivals Audubon. He was also a pioneering ethnographer whose works are a crucial source for the study of the Indian cultures of southeastern America. Here is the first collection of his writings and the largest gathering of his remarkable drawings ever published. . Long recognized as an American classic, Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791) recounts his journeys through the wilderness from 1773 to 1776 in prose famous for its celebratory intensity and lyrical profusion. In the forests, rivers, swamps, and savannahs of the South, Bartram collected botanical specimens and made wildlife drawings, observing the natural abundance around him with a vision shaped by both science and Quaker spirituality. Also included is the sparer and more factual original report of Bartram's southern travels that he sent to his English patron, John Fothergill, as well as a comprehensive collection of his scientific and ethnographic papers. Some of the most beautiful are reproduced in full color. Extensive notes, a glossary of botanical terms, a newly researched chronology of Bartram's life, a map tracing the route of his travels, and an index help guide the reader.

A collection of essays exploring the intimate bond between humanity and the natural world, and how modern life betrays that relationship.

243 pages : 21 cm

Annie Proulx chronicles her acquisition of 640 acres in Wyoming, weaving a personal narrative with natural history, archaeology, and family ties around the land known as Bird Cloud.

James A. Michener reflects on his upbringing in Pennsylvania, his extensive travels worldwide, and how those experiences fed the research that underlies his celebrated novels.

Barry Lopez blends autobiography, travel narratives, and naturalist essays in About This Life, exploring remote locales, cultural insights, and personal memory.

Nan Shepherd’s reflective exploration of the British landscape and mountains, first completed in 1944, was quietly published by Aberdeen University Press in 1977 and later praised by Robert Macfarlane for its profound insights into nature.