Read Braiding Sweetgrass

Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.

The one we are causing, species by species; Kolbert's Pulitzer.

A German forester on how trees talk, share and remember.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.

John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.

Peter Matthiessen walks to Dolpo with a zoologist looking for a cat he never sees.