Books like A woman tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

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

A landmark environmental work that blends keen observations of Wisconsin’s seasonal landscape with a broader philosophical critique of wildlife conservation.

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

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a personal biography of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who experienced the Vietnam War, lived in the United States, and later returned home to confront a changed country.

Barry Holstun Lopez: “Arctic Dreams; Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape” ( 1986) This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait and Davis Strait. It is an account both of the natural history of the Arctic, and equally of how the Arctic grips the human spirit and imagination. The chapters are rich in their descriptions of the Arctic –of the physical land itself, the native peoples that the author met, the Arctic animals and plants, both terrestrial and aquatic, the ice and the Arctic light that make the region so distinctly different from the temperate and tropical parts of Earth. But Lopez also gives us a sense of how the Arctic fascinates the mind and spirit – through his own personal experiences and through the history of the Arctic - both of the native peoples and the discovery expeditions.

Isabella L. Bird’s 1878 travelogue chronicles her 1,400‑mile journey across Japan by horse, ferry, foot, and jinrikisha, offering a vivid portrait of a society on the cusp of modern change.

A portrait of rural Nebraska life, following the bond between an orphan boy and an immigrant girl as they navigate communities and hardships on the 19th‑ and early 20th‑century plains.