Lists of Bests: maevis's "Reading list" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6232 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:21:42 GMT en-us 0 50 181 50 0 Arctic Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/935910 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Lopez</div> In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59521"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Chatwin</div> The Island Within http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18747 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973239X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114058015_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Nelson</div> This Cold Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351764 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351764"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841157236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56987235_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gretel Ehrlich</div> The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24642 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24642"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080507368X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Beston</div> The Snow Leopard (Classic, Nature, Penguin) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140255087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599565_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Matthiessen</div> The Alchemist - Gift Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351200 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/351200"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060887966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Coelho</div> My Invented Country: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/838 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/838"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060545674.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531397_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Jaguars Ripped My Flesh http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/414234 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/414234"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679770798.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465023_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Cahill</div> Out of Africa (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18566"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600213.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114076940_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isak Dinesen</div> 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50286 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/50286"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/140004006X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles C. Mann</div> The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403921 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/403921"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0865470502.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Paul Nabhan</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060977493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs : A Memoir of Iran http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734247 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/734247"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BHA3MM.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129752184_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher de Bellaigue</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1119"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060740450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Seven Years in Tibet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26854 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26854"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0874778883.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503059_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Harrer</div> Where Rivers Change Direction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/886251 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/886251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573228257.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056521597_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Spragg</div> Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534890 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/534890"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670034827.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62066385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Mortenson</div> Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18439"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679410430.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464690_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Down the River (Plume) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133111 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133111"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452265630.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24547 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24547"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805057919.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17284 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17284"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618446877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Theroux</div> Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983619 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/983619"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1139507973_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Fire on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133114 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133114"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380714604.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337360 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337360"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036025.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian Baker</div> Running the Amazon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971956 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/971956"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972902X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128733143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joe Kane</div> Brave Cowboy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/398086 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/398086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380714590.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438736_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079608 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079608"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618155473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Tayler</div> The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32230 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32230"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1585673552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hugh Thomson</div> The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9160 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9160"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375708138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056438439_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Meloy</div> Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440241 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/440241"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724958.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Hansen</div> Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980350 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/980350"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345377443.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Clarissa Pinkola Estes</div> On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351829 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351829"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1585743976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056524668_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Alden Rubin</div> Yak Butter & Black Tea: A Journey into Tibet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30405 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30405"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565122011.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056518903_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wade Brackenbury</div> Into the Heart of Borneo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11228 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11228"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394755405.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Redmond O'Hanlon</div> The Shadow of Kilimanjaro http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120518 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/120518"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805053905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7032 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7032"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316610690.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56799700_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Craig Childs</div> Sound of Mountain Water http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/437129 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/437129"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140266747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stegner</div> Soul of Nowhere http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1065503 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1065503"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316735884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134633546_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Craig Childs</div> The Dharma Bums http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2524 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2524"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140042520.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131483553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Reinventing Eden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81882 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81882"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415931657.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carolyn Merchant</div> Arabian Sands: Revised Edition (Travel Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932183 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/932183"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140095144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilfred Thesiger</div> Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079606 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1079606"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/061833467X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Tayler</div> Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114422 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114422"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060587156.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100050934_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Jordan</div> Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep : Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1128291 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1128291"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1882308115.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056534401_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dolores Lachapelle</div> The Stars, the Snow, the Fire : Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29610 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29610"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/155597306X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John A. Haines</div> Out There http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351859 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351859"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0896585565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65597759_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Kerasote</div> Return of the Wild: The Future of Our Natural Lands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351864 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351864"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1559639261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Living on Wilderness Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351867 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351867"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0813921104.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melissa Walker</div> The Social Creation of Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351869 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1351869"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801845483.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Evernden</div>