Orion Book Awards

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"The Orion Book Award was founded in 2007 to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing. The Orion Book Award recognizes books published in the previous calendar year." From:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/3003/

  1. 2007
    Wild: An Elemental Journey
    by Jay Griffiths

  2. 2007
    The Lives of Rocks
    by Rick Bass

  3. 2007
    Inferno (Bill and Alice Wright Photography)
    by Charles Bowden

  4. 2007
    Returning to Earth: A Novel
    by Jim Harrison

  5. 2007
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan

  6. 2008
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    by Diane Ackerman

  7. 2008
    Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel
    by Ann Pancake

  8. 2008
    The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
    by Richard Preston

  9. 2008
    Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
    by Robert Michael Pyle

  10. 2008
    The World Without Us
    by Alan Weisman

  11. 2009
    Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
    by Amy Irvine

  12. 2009
    The Wild Places (Penguin Original)
    by Robert Macfarlane

  13. 2009
    Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
    by Ginger Strand

  14. 2009
    Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Vintage)
    by Terry Tempest Williams

  15. 2010
    Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
    by Charles Bowden

  16. 2010
    Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
    by Richard Manning

  17. 2010
    Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.)
    by Lydia Peelle

  18. 2010
    Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature
    by Curtis White

  19. 2011
    Insectopedia (Vintage)
    by Hugh Raffles

  20. 2011
    Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
    by David Abram

  21. 2011
    About a Mountain
    by John D'Agata

  22. 2011

  23. 2011
    Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
    by Julia Whitty

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Created by smh116 on Apr 04, 2010.
 

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