University of Nevada Press

BROWSE - SUBJECTS - Environmental Literature

9 - 16 of 46 books

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Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking

Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil.... more

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Crow's Range

An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada

by David Beesley

John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’... more

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A Doubtful River

Photography by Robert Dawson, Peter Goin,
Essays by Mary Webb

In A Doubtful River, photographers Robert Dawson and Peter Goin and essayist Mary Webb explore the ways the Truckee's multifarious users relate to the region’... more

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Down by the Lemonade Springs

Essays on Wallace Stegner

by Jackson J. Benson

Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers, and environmentalists of the twentieth century.... more

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Drift Smoke

Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire

by David J. Strohmaier

David Strohmaier’s long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural world of the American West.... more

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Earthtones

A Nevada Album

Essays by Ann Ronald,
Photography by Stephen Trimble

Too many visitors to the Silver State never see Ann Ronald and Stephen Trimble's Nevada: teal sky and a sea of purple sage, mountain mahogany and a crimson mass of claret cup cactus, a dust-blown sunset of vermilion, orange, and gold.... more

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Finding Higher Ground

A Life of Travels

by Catharine Savage Brosman

Essayist Catharine Savage Brosman explores the relationship of human beings to their environment, traveling from American deserts to dense European urban settings.... more

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Friendly Fallout 1953

by Ann Ronald

Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian “... more