San Antonio College Library

Vol. 1 of the autobiography of one of America's most outspoken environmental activists. The book details his long-time commitment to saving the beauty of the earth and the splendor of its life and wild places.

As a climber, David Brower scaled many previously "insurmountable" mountains. As a conservationist, Brower has brought a mountaineer's determination and reverence for nature to his efforts to protect the Earth and educate its human inhabitants. He has kept dams out of the Grand Canyon and loggers out of Olympic National Park, established the National Wilderness Preservation System, added seven new regions to the National Park System, and helped to...

"The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, the first book to be based on her papers, is at once a literary biography and a reader. It tells what Rachel Carson accomplished during her life, how she went about doing it, and what special qualities she possessed that enabled her to write so well and so powerfully... The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with its generous selections from both her published and unpublished writings, is the perfect introduction...

This program chronicles the famed biologist's love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his study of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's place in it.

Delves into the private life of twentieth-century American novelist and environmentalist Edward Abbey, or "Cactus Ed," showing the man behind the persona he put forth as a writer and a public speaker.

A memoir written by one of Edward Abbey's closest friends explores the life of the influential author and environmental activist.

By drawing on previously unavailable sources and on interviews with those who knew her, Linda Lear gives a compelling portrait of this heroic woman, illuminating the origin of her connection with nature and of her determination to save what she loved. Lear reveals the unexpected influence of Carson's early experience with industrial pollution and examines her life-changing encounter with the possibility of global extinction in the frightening days...

Presents the story of Douglas Tompkins, founder of The North Face, who sold his stake in the company and used his fortune to protect over twenty-five million acres of land in South America from development. In 1991 Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew to Patagonia. The founder of groundbreaking companies had come to regret the corporate capitalism from which he had profited from years. As a CEO he had caused much...

First published in 1968, this account of two summers spent in southeastern Utah's canyonlands is a classic exemplar of American nature writing. The author recounts his stint as a park ranger at Arches National Monument, his love for the natural beauty that surrounded him, and his distaste for the modernizing improvements designed to increase visitation to the park.

"Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now ... nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West"--Dust jacket...