Outdoors & Nature
- Tour of the Jungfrau Region (Cicerone Guides)
- 'An interesting long circular walk for those who have done the Tour of Mont Blanc and want to find a route that is less crowded. There are bad-weather alternatives, and shortside walks. As always with Kev Reynolds, the introduction is comprehensive. This route (or part of it) could, I think, be used for an Alpine debut.
- Swimming Holes of California: Day Trips With a Splash
- Pancho Doll (is) America's foremost professional swimming hole sleuth. He lives out of his truck, canvassing small towns for the best places to cool off on a hot day and pacing the area until he finds them. He takes notes and pictures, then heads back to San Diego -- his base, if it can be said that he has one -- to self-publish his own series of regional swimming hole guides.
- Fly Fisher's Guide to Idaho (Flyfisher's Guides)
- This comprehensive guidebook covers all major Idaho rivers, including the Henry's Fork and Island Park Reservoir, Teton, South Fork of the Snake, Big Wood and Little Wood, Silver Creek, Salmon, Boise, Payette, Clearwater, St. Joe's, Lochsa, Selway and more.
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings
- In this appealing, heartfelt account of one man's attempt to bond with wildlife, the author tells how he made friends with a flock of birds and in the process found meaning in his own life. In the early 1990s, Bittner, a 42-year-old who was still living like a "dharma bum," discovered that there were wild parrots in the trees and on the power lines near the house he was caretaking on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.
- Through the Garden Gate (Chapel Hill Books)
- This excellent collection of essays gives us another chance to read Lawrence, whose work is endlessly rewarding. They make us envy those for whom she was a weekly columnist--readers of the Charlotte Observer , in which these pieces appeared between 1957 and 1971. The idea for this collection was born when her friend Bill Neal discovered some of these old newspapers.
- The Pennsylvania Weather Book
- The weather has always been a favorite topic of conversation. Undoubtedly, someone must have said to Noah, "I thought they said it was supposed to let up on Tuesday." Over a century ago, American essayist Charles Dudley Warner wrote in the Hartford Courant, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
- The world as we know it has ended forever: that's the melancholy message of this nonetheless cautiously optimistic assessment of the planet's future by McKibben, whose The End of Nature first warned of global warming's inevitable impact 20 years ago. Twelve books later, the committed environmentalist concedes that the earth has lost the climatic stability that marked all of human civilization.
