Selected Books Referenced in Sierra Nevada Programs Compiled and Updated by Shirley Spencer, 2014

Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. New York: Touchstone, 1968. Abbey, Edward. The Journey Home. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1977. Anderson, Lorraine. Sisters of the Earth. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Arax, Mark. The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. New York: PublicAffairs, 2003. Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. New York: Penguin Books, 1988. Blackwell, Laird R. Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley. Edmonton, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing, 1999. Botti, Stephen J. An Illustrated Flora of Yosemite National Park. El Portal, California: Yosemite Association, 2001. Brewer, William. Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003. Browning, Peter. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1986. Burt, William H. A Field Guide to the Mammals. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Childs, Craig. The Secret Knowledge of Water. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1997. Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005. Duane, Timothy. Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Eiseley, Loren. The Star Thrower. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Farqhar, Francis. History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. Fitzpatrick, John W. Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Washington D. C.: National Geographic, 1987. Gilbert, Bil. Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker. Atheneum, New York: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. Hartesveldt, Richard J., Harvey, H. Thomas, Shellhammer, Howard S., Stecker, Ronald E. The Giant Sequoia of the Sierra Nevada. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 2005. Heinrich, Bernd. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. New York: Harper Collins, 2003. Huber, N. King. The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1987. Johnson, Shelton. Gloryland: A Novel. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 2009. King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. El Portal: Yosemite Association, 1997. Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker and Company, 2002. Lanner, Ronald M. Conifers of California. Los Olivos: Cachuma Press, 1999. Laws, John Muir. The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2007. Le Conte, Joseph. A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by the University Excursion Party. El Portal: Yosemite Association, 1994. Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Levy, Jo Ann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. McLuhan, T. C. Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of the Indian Existence. New York: Pocket Books, 1972. McPhee, John. Assembling California. New York: The Noonday Press, 1993. Madgic, Bob. Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite’s Half Dome. Short Hills, New Jersey: Burford Books, 2005. Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishing, 2005. Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishing, 2011. Matthes, Francois E. The Incomparable Valley: a Geologic Interpretation of the Yosemite. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1950. Meyerson, Harvey. Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. New York: Random House, Doubleday, 2005. Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1953. Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Muir, John. The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures. Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Association, 1994. Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks. New York: Pocket Books, 1959. O’Brien, Mary Barmeyer. Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails. Guilford, Connecticut, The Globe Pequot Press, 1999. O’Neill, Elizabeth Stone. Mountain Sage. Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Association, 1988. Pavlik, Bruce M. Oaks of California. Los Olivos: Cachuma Press, 1991. Pollan, Michael. Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001. Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Roper, Laura Wood. FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1973. Rose, Gene. High Odyssey: The First Solo Winter Assault of Mt. Whitney and the Muir Trail Area. Berkeley, California, Howell-North Books, 1974. Rose, Gene. The San Joaquin – A River Betrayed. Clovis: Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., 2000. Russell, Jerry and Renny. On the Loose. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1967. Sargent, Shirley. Galen Clark: Yosemite Guardian. Yosemite, California: Flying Spur Press, 1981. Sax, Joseph L. Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Seagraves, Anne. Women of the Sierra. Lakeport, California: Wesanne Enterprises, 1990. Smith, Wallace. Garden of the Sun: A History of the San Joaquin Valley: 1772-1939. Fresno: Linden Publishing, 2004. Spencer, Shirley. Flowering Shrubs of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 2009. Storer, Tracy I. and Usinger, Robert L. Sierra Nevada Natural History: An Illustrated Handbook. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1963. Tompsom, Steven and Mary. Wild Food Plants of the Sierra. Berkeley, California: Wilderness Press, 1972. Tweed, William C. Challenge of the Big Trees. Three Rivers: Sequoia Natural History Association, Inc., 1990. Tweed, William C. Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks. Berkeley, University of California Press. 2011. Van Matre, Steve. The Earth Speaks: An Acclimatization Journal. West Virginia: The Institute for Earth Education, 1983. Weidensaul, Scott. Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds. New York: North Point Press, 1999. Whitney, Stephen. A Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide to the Sierra Nevada. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1979. Wiese, Karen. Sierra Nevada Wildflowers. Helena, Montana: Falcon Publishing, Inc., 2000.