CLICK HERE to download the first 40 pages of Midnight Wilderness* Presents the original foreword by Margaret E. Murie* Features a new afterword by the author, providing context for the Refuge today* Includes a new map and an updated bibliographyOriginally published more than twenty years ago, Midnight Wilderness is a passionate and vivid account of one of Alaska's greatest natural treasures, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Author Debbie Miller draws on her years of exploring this unique, magical, and expansive territory, weaving chilling adventure, personal anecdote, wildlife observation, and Native American life into a beautiful and compelling memoir of place.Proceeds from sales of this book will benefit the Alaska Wilderness League in its ongoing efforts to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Midnight wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Science & Math

Miller, Debbie S.

Nature & Ecology

Sierra Club Books

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as our era's most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning-ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams. Stylistically adept and ambitious in scope, The River Why is a touching and powerful novel by an important voice in American fiction. In a new Afterword written for this twentieth-anniversary edition, David James Duncan reflects on the genesis of his book and on the surprising link between fishing and wisdom.

The River Why

Literature & Fiction

David James Duncan

Contemporary

A collection of animal facts and summer activities including craft projects and nature discussions

The Sierra Club Summer Book

Allison, Linda

Children's Books

Text and pictures document the life cycle of this amazing tree of the African savannah, and portrays the animals and people it helps to support

Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab (Tree Tales)

Bash, Barbara

A retelling of a traditional Eskimo tale of how a seven-year-old blind boy is saved from death by the kindly little mouse people

The Seal Oil Lamp: Adapted from an Eskimo Folktale and Illustrated With Wood Engravings

DeArmond, Dale

Animals

Examines the many reasons for animal extinctions, and discusses how some near-extinctions have been reversed through special programs

And Then There Was One: The Mysteries of Extinction

Facklam, Margery

Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own

The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Kohl, Herbert R.

Kohl, Judith

A collection of information, games, and activities about journeying, this book takes youngsters through the history of travel and instructs them in the adventurous art of making one's way

The Sierra Club Wayfinding Book

McVey, Vicki

Texas Traditions: The Culture of the Lone Star State

Discusses the history, geography, industry, and arts of Texas

Turner, Robyn

History

Describes the huge forest fires that burned almost one million acres of Yellowstone National Park in 1988 and the effects on the ecology of the forest there

The Great Yellowstone Fire

Vogel, Carole Garbuny

Goldner, Kathryn Allen

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