Walkin' Jim's Recommended Reading List
 
 Check out these books (that are not arranged in any particular order) which have a special place on Jim's Bookshelf.
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The Great Work - Thomas Berry

The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

Wilderness Ethics – Laura & Guy Waterman

Two in the Far North - Mardie Murie

Refuge – Terry Tempest Williams

Northern Farm – Henry Beston

Small Wonder - Barbara Kingsolver

Riverwalking -- Reflections on Moving Water - Kathleen Dean Moore

Red - Terry Tempest Williams

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

The Lost Grizzlies - Rick Bass

The Book of Yaak - Rick Bass

The Trail Home - John Daniel

Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day - Thor Heyerdahl

On the Loose - Terry and Renny Russell

Halfway Man - Wayland Drew

In The Shadow of a Rainbow - Robert Franklin Leslie

The Bears and I - Robert Franklin Leslie 

Voice of the Earth - Michael Tobias

The River Why - David James Duncan

The Grizzly Years - Doug Peacock

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

The Thousand Mile Summer - Colin Fletcher

The Man Who Walked Through Time - Colin Fletcher

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Everst The West Ridge - Thomas F. Hornbein

The Journals of Lewis and Clark- Meriwether Lewis

In The Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Matthiessen

At Play In The Fields of the Lord - Peter Matthiessen

The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

Sea of Slaughter - Farley Mowat

Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat

People of the Deer - Farley Mowat

The Snow Walker - Farley Mowat

A Woman's Journey - Cindy Ross

 Everett Ruess - W.L. Rusho

Journal of a Trapper - Osborne Russell

Turtle Island - Gary Snyder

In the Shining Mountains - David Thomson

Alaska Wilderness - Bob Marshall (formerly titled "Arctic Wilderness")

An Unspoken Hunger - Terry Tempest Williams

The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz

Animal, Vegetable, and Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver 

                A Wilderness Book Shelf would not be complete without Ed Abbey. These are my favorite of Abbey's works:

The Journey Home - Ed Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abbey
Abbey's Road - Ed Abbey
Fire On The Mountain - Ed Abbey
Desert Solitaire - Ed Abbey
Brave Cowboy - Ed Abbey
Fool's Progress - Ed Abbey

 
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