Mountains category: 178 books
Exploring the Southern Appalachian Grassy Balds
A Hiking Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
“Treeless wonders” of the Southern Appalachians, grassy balds have long baffled scientists and enchanted outdoor enthusiasts. They exist as open spaces, often grassy meadows, found on or near the summits of mountains that are technically below the tree line. Are they artificial, the result of...
The Light in High Places
A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
A bird’s eye view of the magnificent Wind River Mountains from a man who climbed their peaks—includes color photos!
Long-time naturalist and former rancher Joe Hutto’s deep connection to Wyoming has led him on many adventures. This time, he braved the heights of the Wind River Mountain...
by Ellen Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earth’s interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults. To learn what humans, in our brief lifespan, have done here is to acquire...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including GPS, Detailed Maps, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the Parkway, including the Appalachian Trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail,...
by Michael Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
"Mountain flowers are the most romantic in our flora, exquisite, enigmatic and, often, remote from human habitation. Michael Scott has not only seen them all but has roamed every part of the hill scenery of Britain
and brings to his subject passion, learning and hands-on experience. This is field...
The Finest Peaks
Prominence and Other Mountain Measures
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
This book challenges the precedent that a mountain's worth scales with height. It is a rational synthesis of new concepts that compel one to reassess the popular "heightist mindset". The concept of prominence, loosely defined as a mountain's vertical relief, is a stiff competitor to summit...
A Symphony of Seasonal Colours
Symphonie multicolore au fil des saisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Mountains fauna, flora and landscape pictures. (English and French)
Images de montagnes, de sa faune et de sa flore. (Français et anglais)
Making Rocky Mountain National Park
The Environmental History of an American Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers craved. As Jerry Frank demonstrates, however, the park is much more...
Down from the Mountain
The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
**"Andrews’ wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts... Welcome and impressive work.” —Barry Lopez
The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they...
In the Great Apache Forest (Complete Edition)
The Story of a Lone Boy Scout
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book brings us the story of George Crosby, the Lone Boy Scout. George Crosby was born and has lived all of his seventeen years, in Greer, a settlement of a half-dozen pioneer families located...
Four Wings and a Prayer
Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
Steep Trails
A collection of wilderness essays and tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
‘When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to feel the joy of living.’
Steep Trails encompasses a delightful mix of John Muir's essays and adventure narratives, spanning a period of twenty-nine...
by John Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
First published in 1910, “In the Catskills” is a fantastic selection of essays concerning The Catskill Mountains by American naturalist John Burroughs. Nowhere is a love of Catskill Mountain landscape, its flora and fauna, and its people more beautifully expressed then in these eight essays. Highly...
Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests
An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of experience guiding forest walks throughout the region, Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth invite hikers...