The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

by Egan, Timothy

Description: Chazaud, Jaques (Map) Very good in Good jacket. x, [2], 324 pages. map, illustrations, notes on sources, index. Small tear in front DJ, DJ has some sticker residue. Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author and journalist. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. In 2001, the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for ... Read More

Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense

by Ray, Dixy Lee, And Guzzo, Louis R.

Description: Very good, very good. 24 cm, 260. The authors argue that good stewardship of the environment, scientific honesty, and constitutional liberties based on property rights are being consciously endangered by environmental extremists. Read More

The Wilderness Warrior; Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

by Brinkley, Douglas

Description: Nick Springer (Maps) Very good in Very good jacket. xv, [3], 940, [2] pages. Illustrated end papers. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks. Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN and a contributing editor to the magazines Vanity Fair and American Heritage. A public ... Read More

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

by Lear, Linda

Description: Very good in very good jacket. xviii, 634 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A long-overdue biography of the courageous woman whose landmark book, SILENT SPRING, changed how we think about the world we live in. Based on personal documents and reminiscences previously unavailable, this book illuminates Carson's personal life as well as her contribution to the contemporary environmental movement. The biography of the ecologist and nature writer whose book "Silent Spring" began a ... Read More

The Quiet World; Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960

by Brinkley, Douglas

Description: Very good in Good jacket. x, [2], 576, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (most in color). Maps. DJ is price clipped. Some DJ wear and soiling. Includes Prologue: John Muir and the Gospel of Glaciers. Also includes chapters on Odyssey of the Snowy Owl; Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Doctrine; The Pinchot-Ballinger Feud; Bull Moose Crusade; Charles Sheldon's Fierce Fight; Our Vanishing Wildlife; The Lake Clark Pact; Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent; The New Wilderness ... Read More

Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense

by Ray, Dixy Lee, And Guzzo, Louis R.

Description: Very good, fair. 24 cm, 260, large tear at rear DJ, DJ edges worn. Inscribed by the author. The author argues that good stewardship of the environment, scientific honesty, and even our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being consciously endangered by environmental extremists. The author was formerly the chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission. Read More

Oil and Honey; the Education of an Unlikely Activist

by McKibben, Bill

Description: Very good in Very good jacket. [12], 255 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by the Author sticker on the front of the DJ. William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born December 8, 1960) is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of a climate campaign group. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End ... Read More

An Inconvenient Truth: the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

by Gore, Albert, Jr

Description: Gore, Tipper (Photographer of some illustraitons) Very good. Signed by author. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 328 p. Illustrations. Fold-out. Bookplate referencing film laid in. Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. From Wikipedia: "Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, ... Read More