Nature Literature discussion

Hi everyone,

Please give me your nominations for the September 2015 Book of the Month on this thread. You have until next Saturday to add your suggestions and then I'll be putting up a poll.

Thanks,
Becky

A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks.

From the Goodreads blurb:
"In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers’ Camp," the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican lawyer and future U.S. attorney general Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, the Cambridge poet James Russell Lowell, and the transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who would later pen a poem about the experience. News that these cultured men were living like “Sacs and Sioux” in the wilderness appeared in newspapers across the nation and helped fuel a widespread interest in exploring the Adirondacks."

Unfortunately, it is very expensive. The hardcover edition doesn't have a cover on GR yet, but the Kindle does.

There was a broadcast on NPR about it:
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/24/4253211...

And the GR Kindle page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

John Burroughs: An American Naturalist

Anyone else like to nominate a good book for our September read? Maybe even a book that came in second in a previous month. One that didn't quite make it, but that you would like to read with us?

Sher

If it's not too late I nominate The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms -a fascinating look at the importance of earthworms.

Thank you for all the nominations, everyone. Sorry I'm a bit late in getting the poll up - I was on vacation!

~Becky

Yes, it was my hubby's and my 25th wedding anniversary on Aug. 11th so we went to one of our favourite places on the planet: Whitefish Point on Lake Superior (Upper Peninsula of Michigan). The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is there, but also the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (http://www.michigandnr.com/publicatio...) and some truly beautiful beach. Off the coast there is where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank - that area DEFINITELY has a personality!

I've posted a few of my photos from this latest trip in the Photos section of the group if you're interested!

Thanks, Rach!

I have multiple copies of A Sand County Almanac. If anyone has trouble finding it, just contact me!

Thank you for that generous offer, Zebulun!

To try to make this as easy for everyone as possible, I'd like us to limit this discussion to A Sand County Almanac only - even if someone's particular edition has other essays or other writings included, such as this one that's featured on Goodreads:
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Becky wrote: "Thank you for that generous offer, Zebulun!

To try to make this as easy for everyone as possible, I'd like us to limit this discussion to A Sand County Almanac only - even if someone's particula..."

Good idea Becky- I did not realize some editions had additional writings.

The Leopold Foundation favourited my "tweet" about us reading A Sand County Almanac in September.

If you "do" Twitter, you may want to check out their page there: https://twitter.com/AldoLeopoldFdn

I don't tweet, but I do get their email newsletter.

Hi Everyone-- looks like September's discussion is off to a good start. :) I can't join you this month due to travel and a lot of company and the last of the music festivals to play in. So, I hope to join you again soon. Sher