Browsing: Outdoors & Nature

In this insider perspective on space exploration with over 1,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads, a NASA astronaut recounts his adventures, including seven space walks and a life-threatening Mount Everest summit. This “down-to-earth discourse mingles the ordinary with the extraordinary” (Booklist).

From a Mt. Everest avalanche to a sadistic wilderness therapy program, see the world through the eyes of the revered author of Into the Wild in this must-read collection of his classic articles and essays. “Krakauer is a masterly writer and reporter” (The New York Times Book Review).

Do we have more in common with animals than we realize? This intriguing, insightful book examines rat friendships, prairie dog vocabularies, and other examples of incredible wildlife intelligence. “Eye-opening reading” (The Christian Science Monitor).

When life gets your goat, bring in the herdJennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to…

A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017 One of Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017…

A New York Times Editors’ Choice of 2017: This “gripping” work (The New Yorker) explores the science behind Earth’s five mass extinctions. “Entertaining and informative on the geological record and the researchers who study it” (Kirkus Reviews).

In 1972, a Uruguayan rugby team crash-landed in the Andes, facing freezing cold and certain starvation. Their harrowing story of survival is documented in this chilling New York Times bestseller with over 25,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

In this “astoundingly lighthearted book” (The New York Times), Betty MacDonald shares her stirring, hilarious story about the trials of moving to a small chicken farm in the Washington wilderness. With over 2,400 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

A New York Times bestseller with over 14,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In 1986, Christopher Knight left home for the woods of New England — and spent nearly 30 years there in complete isolation. “An extraordinary story about solitude, community, identity, and freedom” (The Guardian).

In his darkest hour, veteran Army helicopter pilot Gil Connor embarks on a perilous mission to save the survivors of a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness. Can he withstand the elements to execute the daring rescue?