Friday, October 26, 2007

Reading list

As far as I can tell, these are the books the Drinking & Reading Society has read since its inception, whenever that was. If you have any additions, or can put dates to the selections, have at it.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard Dec. 08
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell Oct. 08
The Voyage of The Beagle by Charles Darwin Sept. 08 
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry July 08 
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry June 08 
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan May 08 
Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade April 08 
The Searunners, Ivan Doig (March 08)
 
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wolves to Yellowstone, Smith & Furgeson (Feb. 08) 
Tent Life in Siberia, George Kennan (Jan. 08) 

The Book of Yaak, The Lost Grizzlies, The Ninemile Wolves, Rick Bass. Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; Coyote’s Canyon, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field, Terry Tempest Williams. (Nov. 07)
Of Moths & Men, Judith Hooper OR After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou
 (Oct. 07)
 Moths & Men, Judith Hooper (Oct. 07)
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou (Oct. 07)
The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan, Sept. 07
The Land Remembers, Ben Logan July 07
A Natural History of North American Trees, Donald Culross Peattie June 07
Audubon, The Making of an American, Richard Rhodes, May 07
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan, Mar./Apr. 07
My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir, Feb. 07
The Making of the Fittest, Sean B. Carroll, Jan. 07

The Creation, E.O. Wilson, Dec. 06
Great Plains, Ian Frazier, Nov. 06
A Northwoods Companion, John Bates July 06
Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal June 06
Evolution, Edward Larson May 06
Nature Revealed, Edward O. Wilson, April 06
1491, Michael Carr, March 06

Desert Solitaire. Edward Abbey August 04
The Desert Year. Joseph Wood Krutch (August 04 alternative)
Correction Lines, Curt Meine
River Town, Peter Hassler
The Man from Clear Lake: Sen. Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, Bill Christofferson.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27,1883, Simon Winchester July 04
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
The Death of Environmentalism
The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond
A Place of My Own, Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
The Survival of the Bark Canoe, John McPhee
Founding Fish, John McPhee
Young Men and Fire, Norman McLean
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner
My Childhood and Youth, John Muir
Birds of Heaven, Peter Mattiessen
Consilience, E.O. Wilson
Listening Point, Sigurd F. Olson
Winter World, Bernd Heinrich
This House of Sky, Landscapes of a Western Mind, Ivan Doig
The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin by Richard Thiel
The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species by L. David Mech, Dec. 05
Changes in the Land, Bill Cronon
The Last Voyage of Columbus, Martin Dugard

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