10 Best Mountain Ecology Books

Experience the creative vision of iconic artist and environmentalist Ansel Adams via this durable wire-bound wall calendar, featuring generous space for recording monthly schedules. Ansel Adams’ “Authorized Edition” calendars have been a beloved annual tradition for over 35 years. The 2021 wall calendar includes: * Fourteen exquisite black and white landscape photographs, carefully selected and sequenced to reflect the changing seasons. * Large format 12.8″ x 15.6″ wall calendar (25.6″ x 15.6″ open). * Spectacular views from Yosemite National Park, Denali National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, White Sands National Park, and more. * The perfect inspirational gift for lovers of fine art, photography, National Parks, and the outdoors. * Printed in rich duotone on premium paper stock, making each page suitable for framing at year’s end. * Features US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and major religious holidays. * Printed and manufactured in the United States of America. The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America’s finest cultural treasures, and form the foundation of his tremendous legacy of environmental activism. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, today his vision is as relevant and convincing as ever. More than 45 years ago, Ansel Adams selected Little, Brown and Company as the sole authorized publisher of his photography. At the same time, he established The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust in order to ensure the continuity and protection of his legacy–both artistic and environmental. As Adams himself wrote, “Perhaps the most important characteristic of my work is what may be called print quality. It is very important that the reproductions be as good as you can possible get them.” The authorized books, calendars, and posters published by Little, Brown have been rigorously supervised by the Trust to make certain that Adams’ exacting quality standards are maintained. Only such works published by Little, Brown and Company may be considered authentic representations of the genius of Ansel Adams. For more ways to enjoy the photography of Ansel Adams, look for the Ansel Adams 2021 Engagement Calendar, and Ansel Adams ‘ Yosemite.

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award “Mesmerizing… Underland is a portal of light in dark times.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review In Underland , Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time―from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk “hiding place” where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come― Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Global in its geography and written with great lyricism, Underland speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world. 24 illustrations

Celebrate the creative vision of iconic artist and environmentalist Ansel Adams year-round with this hard-working, wire-bound desk planner, featuring smudge-proof writing paper and generous room for organizing weekly schedules. Ansel Adams’ “Authorized Edition” calendars have been a beloved annual tradition for over 35 years. This 2021 engagement calendar includes: * Fifty-two spectacular black and white photographs by Ansel Adams, including some previously unpublished images, carefully selected and sequenced to reflect the changing seasons. * Spacious 9″ x 9.4″ week-by-week format. * Nature scenes from Yosemite National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and more. * The perfect inspirational gift for lovers of fine art, photography, National Parks, and the outdoors. * Photographs are printed in rich duotone on specialized photo paper, making each image suitable for framing at year’s end. * Interleaved with premium, no-smudge writing paper. * Features US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and major religious holidays. * Printed and manufactured in the United States of America. The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America’s finest cultural treasures, and form the foundation of his tremendous legacy of environmental activism. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, today his vision is as relevant and convincing as ever. More than 45 years ago, Ansel Adams selected Little, Brown and Company as the sole authorized publisher of his photography. At the same time, he established The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust in order to ensure the continuity and protection of his legacy–both artistic and environmental. As Adams himself wrote, “Perhaps the most important characteristic of my work is what may be called print quality. It is very important that the reproductions be as good as you can possible get them.” The authorized books, calendars, and posters published by Little, Brown have been rigorously supervised by the Trust to make certain that Adams’ exacting quality standards are maintained. Only such works published by Little, Brown and Company may be considered authentic representations of the genius of Ansel Adams. For more ways to enjoy the photography of Ansel Adams, look for the Ansel Adams 2021 Wall Calendar and Ansel Adams’ Yosemite.

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature “Gripping, intense… Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [ Into Thin Air ].” ―Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world’s most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective. Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club. 16 pages of illustrations; 8 maps

A captivating new book from Wade Davis–award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade–that brings vividly to life the story of the great R io Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote during his own pilgrimage on the river: “The only reason I would like to be young again would be the chance to travel again on a freighter going up the Magdalena.” Only in Colombia can a traveler wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits. This rugged and impossible geography finds its perfect coefficient in the topography of the Colombian spirit: restive, potent, at times placid and calm, in moments explosive and wild. Both a corridor of commerce and a fountain of culture, the wellspring of Colombian music, literature, poetry, and prayer, the Magdalena has served in dark times as the graveyard of the nation. And yet, always, it returns as a river of life. At once an absorbing adventure and an inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena gives us a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of a nation on the verge of a new period of peace. Braiding together memoir, history, and journalism, Wade Davis tells the story of the country’s most magnificent river, and in doing so, tells the epic story of Colombia.

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the ‘essential nature’ of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction “This is a book for all of us, right now.” ―Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.” 12 black and white illustrations