The Invention of Nature; Alexander Von Humboldt's New World.
by Andrea Wulf
Oaks of California
by Bruce M Pavlik
The Star Thrower
by Loren Eiseley
Galen Clark: Yosemite Guardian
by Shirley Sargent
Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
Westering ManL The Life of Joseph Walker
by Bil Gilbert
Sierra Nevada Natural History: An Illustrated Handbook.
by Tracy I Storer
The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park
by King N Huber
Sisters of the Earth
by Lorraine Anderson
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
My First Summer in the Sierra
by Muir, John.
The first of John Muir's books. This inspirational book allows the reader to understand John Muir's desire to protect and preserve Yosemite.
The Earth Speaks: An Acclimatization Journal
by Steve Van Matre
. Gloryland: A Novel.
by Johnson, Shelton
This books is roughly based on the life of his great-grandfather who was a buffalo soldier and one of those who patrolled Yosemite NP around the turn of the century to protect it from poachers, loggers, miners, etc.
Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave, but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South.
Shelton Johnson is an interpretive ranger for Yosemite National Park. His area of expertise is the Buffalo Soldiers and their influence on the early history of Yosemite and the west.
FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
by Laura Wood Roper
My First Summer in the Sierra
by John Muir
The Secret Knowledge of Water
by Craig Childs
Challenge of the Big Trees
by William C Tweed
High Odyssey: The First Solo Winter Assault of Mt. Whitney and the Muir Trail Area.
by Rose, Gene.
Anyone who loves mountains, and especially the Sierra Nevada, will find this a great addition to the library. It documents the little known winter solo ski trip over the entire John Muir trail, from Mt. Whitney to Yosemite, by Orland Bartholemew in 1928-29. The author expertly crafts the story from old notes and a diary.
Secrets of the Oak Woodlands; Plants and Animals Among California's Oaks
by Kate Marianchild
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds.
by Scott Weidensaul
Gloryland: A Novel
by Shelton Johnson
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
William Neill Blog
by http://www.williamneill.com/blog/
The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
by John Muir
The Journey Home
by Edward Abbey
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
High Odyssey: The First Solo Winter Assault of Mt. Whitney and the Muir Trail Area
by Gene Rose
Garden of the Sun: A History of the San Joaquin Valley: 1772-1939.
by Wallace Smith
Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H Brewer
by William Brewer
Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of the Indian Existence
by McLuhan, T. C.
The Photographer's Guide to Yosemite
by Michael Frye
www.michaelfrye.com
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
by Jo Ann Levy
Sierra Nevada Wildflowers
by Karen Wiese
The Incomparable Valley: a Geologic Interpretation of the Yosemite.
by Francois E Matthes
A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevada
by Stephen Whitney
A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierra of California by the University Excursion Party
by Joseph Le Conte
The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures.
by Muir, John.
Short stories from John Muir that creates an understanding of John Muir.
Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
by Joseph L Sax
Yosemite: Volume One
by William Neill
Our expert instructor highly recommends William Neill's blog and ebook. Find the blog at www.williamneill.com/blog/ and Find his ebook at www.williamneill.com/store/ebooks/yosemite-volume1/index.html
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
by Clarence King
Field Guide to Birds of North America
by John W Fitzpatrick
Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite
by Harvey Meyerson
A Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide to the Sierra Nevada.
by Whitney, Stephen
. Stephen Whitney has taken most of the University of California Press guides and books and done an excellent job of condensing a wide range of biotic and abiotic topics. I highly recommend this guide to anyone interested in the Sierra Nevada, whether a teacher, backpacker, student, or amateur naturalist.
Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite’s Half Dome
by Bob Madgic
The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park.
by Huber, N. King.
Geologic History of Yosemite
Conifers of California
by Ronald M Lanner
The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin
Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley
by Laird R Blackwell
Winter WorldL The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
by Bernd Heinrich
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
by Dale L Morgan
History of the Sierra Nevada
by Francis Farqhar
Flowering Shrubs of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada.
by Spencer, Shirley.
While the trees of Yosemite thrill visitors and the wildflowers often steal the show, every year the blue elderberry, the snowberry, the American dogwood, and dozens of other shrubs bloom in a glory all their own. This lovely volume, with inspired watercolors showing the fruit, flowers, and foliage of the plants, pays these shrubs full homage. Complete with useful information for plant identification, this book serves as a welcome and needed introduction to some of Yosemite's wildflowers.
Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
The Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter
The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American
by Mark Arax
The San Joaquin – A River Betrayed
by Gene Rose
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
Mountain Sage
by Elizabeth Stone O'Neill
Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West
by Timothy Duane
An Illustrated Flora of Yosemite National Park
by Botti, Stephen J
An Illustrated Flora of Yosemite National Park. El Portal, California:
Assembling California
by John McPhee
A Field Guide to Mammals
by William H Burt
Uncertain Path; A Search for the Future of National Parks
by William C Tweed
"Ansel Adams and the American Landscape"
by Jonathan Spaulding
Flowering Shrubs of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada
by Shirley Spencer
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by jared Diamond
The Hour of Land; A Personal Topography of America's National Parks.
by Terry Tempest Williams
Black Elk Speaks
by John Neihardt
On the Loose
by Jerry & Renny Russell