American road trips
An appreciation of 7 good books My father Edwin died in June, 2016 at age 96, in Rochester, New York.…
2016: Update, July, 2020 | Richard Carstensen | 13 pages
Keepers
In my tiny apartment, old-fashioned bound books take up an inordinate amount of wall space. The rule of thumb; if they don’t get thumbed about once-per-year, off to Friends of the Library, or an even sardine-tighter storage unit. In the name of economy and smaller footprints, my ratio of digital-to-physical acquisition grows higher every year.
But some books will always stay close at hand, dog-eared and scribbled-in. A book worth re-reading becomes part of how we think. Here are some reflections on books that shape Discovery’s mission, our tribal dna, and what our naturalists bring to every class and outing in the land of moss and mistmaiden.
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast
My most-thumbed book For the past quarter century since its publication in 1994, this has been—hands down—the most often-opened book…
1994 | Pojar & MacKinnon, eds | 528 pages
The Nature of Southeast Alaska
It’s a little unorthodox for authors to review their own books, so I’ll defer on this first one. But it…
2013 | Carstensen, Armstrong & O'Clair | 310 pages
Last child in the woods
Whenever I visit my parents in a suburb of Rochester, New York, I pack my binoculars and slip into a…
2006 | Richard Louv | 418 pages
Our grandparents’ names on the land
Haa L’éelk’w Hás Aani Saax’ú: Our grandparents’ names on the land. Sealaska Heritage Institute; University of Washington Press. Cultural atlas…
2012 | Thornton & Martin, eds | 232 pages
Faith of cranes
Faith of cranes: finding hope and family in Alaska. (Mountaineers, Seattle) Review from the Fall 2011 issue of Discoveries Some…
2011 | Hank Lentfer | 179 pages
Field notes on science and nature
Field notes on science & nature Harvard University Press. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson Why naturalists should keep journals Can…
2011 | Michael Canfield, ed. | 297 pages