Natural History and Humanities
interdisciplinary studies in the natural world

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~Books We Love~
(or otherwise recommend)

(Well, some we don't love, so much as we think they are worth reading and thinking about...)

(Not a comprehensive list.)

~~~

Poetry

Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room

Robert Frost
The Complete Poems of Robert Frost

Louise Glück
Wild Iris

Linda Hogan
The Book of Medicines

Robinson Jeffers
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

John Keats
The Complete Poems of John Keats

Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems (vol. 1 & 2)
Why I Wake Early

Robert Pack
Before It Vanishes

Pattiann Rogers
Firekeeper

Gary Snyder
The Gary Snyder Reader

William Stafford
Even in Quiet Places

William Wordsworth
The Complete Poems

Nonfiction

Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire

Diane Ackerman
The Moon by Whale Light
A Natural History of the Senses

Mary Austin
The Land of Little Rain

Basho
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Wendell Berry
The Unsettling of America
Jayber Crow

Henry Beston
The Outermost House

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

John Burroughs
Time and Change

Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
The Edge of the Sea

Bruce Chatwin
The Songlines

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Writing Life

Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa

Gretel Ehrlich
The Solace of Open Spaces

Loren Eiseley
The Immense Journey

James Galvin
The Meadow

William Least Heat-Moon
PrairyErth

Edward Hoagland
The Courage of Turtles

Sue Hubble
A Book of Bees
A Country Year

William Kittredge
Hole in the Sky

Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild

Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac

Barry Lopez
Arctic Dreams

Thomas E. Mailes
The Mystic Warriors of the Plains

Beryl Markham
West with the Night

Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard

John McPhee
Coming into the Country
The Survival of the Bark Canoe

John Muir
The Mountains of California

Gary Paul Nabhan
The Desert Smells Like Rain

Redmond O’Hanlon
In Trouble Again

Michael Pollan
Second Nature

Laurens van der Post
The Lost World of the Kalahari

Robert Michael Pyle
Where Bigfoot Walks
Wintergreen

David Quammen
The Song of the Dodo

Howell Raines
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

Slavomir Rawicz
The Long Walk

John Nichols & W.L. Rusho
Everett Ruess

Annick Smith
Homestead

Rebecca Solnit
Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Mark Spragg
Where Rivers Change Direction

John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley

Henry David Thoreau
Walden

Sallie Tisdale
Stepping Westward

Terry Tempest Williams
Refuge

Ann Zwinger
Downcanyon

Fiction

Rick Bass
The Hermit’s Story

David James Duncan
The River Why

Pam Houston
Cowboys Are My Weakness

Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees

Barry Lopez
Desert Notes/River Notes

Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It

N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn

Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony

John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
Tortilla Flat

Science & Responses to Nature

Ann Shelby Blum
Picturing Nature

Jacob Bronoski
The Ascent of Man

David Buss
The Evolution of Desire

William H. Calvin
The River That Flows Uphill

Fritjof Capra
The Web of Life

William Cronon
Uncommon Ground

Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene        

Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee
Guns, Germs and Steel

Stephen Jay Gould
Ever Since Darwin

Donald E. Green
Land of the Underground Rain

Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time

Vance T. Holliday
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains

Allen D. Kanner, Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes
Ecopsychology

Bill McKibben
The End of Nature

John Miller Morris
El Llano Estacado

Matt Ridley
The Red Queen

Carl Sagan
Cosmos

Edward O. Wilson
Biophilia
The Diversity of Life

Robert Wright
The Moral Animal

Field Guides

James C. Halfpenny
Scats and Tracks of the Desert Southwest

Zoe Kirkpatrick
Wildflowers of the Western Plains

Pinau Merlin
Desert Holes

Paul Rezendes
Tracking and the Art of Seeing

David Sibley
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds

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For more information regarding the NHH degree, contact:

Dr. Susan Tomlinson
TTU Honors College
103 McClellan Hall
Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-1828