Bathsheba Demuth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Writer & environmental historian of cold places. Wrote FLOATING COAST, now writing about the Yukon River. Associate prof @BrownUniversity. Heart on a dogsled.
Wild Souls: What We Owe Animals in a Changing World
Emma MarrisBathsheba Demuth@christymtidwell @adriennemaree @infernalchrome @DainaRameyBerry @Afromanticist @minhyoungsong @Bri_Theobald @sahaley @jeremyzallen @Emma_Marris What an amazing stack! I’m really looking forward to Wild Souls too
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William CrononBathsheba DemuthI pair most books with an article, and the two that really moved the class were @sprucehen_’s “Exceeding Beringia” (which we read w/ COOLING THE TROPICS) and @RogueChieftan & Brian William’s “Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons,” (paired with Cronon’s NATURE’S METROPOLIS)
Paperback, 1992
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
Julian AguonBathsheba Demuth@sciencegoddess @julian_aguon @skdh @rachelegross @DavidQuammen @DrSidMukherjee I also hope this site keeps going, in no small part because it is my source for great books like these! I can't get over the title of No Country for Eight Spot Butterflies...
Hardcover, 2022
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Tiya MilesBathsheba DemuthAnother one coming this late summer - Tiya Miles WILD GIRLS -- don't miss! https://t.co/9o1JqvePnV
Hardcover, 2023
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Fredrik Albritton JonssonBathsheba DemuthSCARCITY has more than a terrific cover; it's a searing intellectual history of the concept of not having enough from @FredrikAlbritt1 and Carl Wennerlind https://t.co/7axqUvCnXE
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnultyBathsheba DemuthSo looking forward to speaking with Dara McAnulty @NaturalistDara about his wonderful DIARY OF A YOUNG NATURALIST in three weeks, hosted by a favorite DC refuge @lostcitybooks https://t.co/Oulrg5vB2m
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alaska: An American Colony
Stephen W. HaycoxBathsheba Demuth@sprucehen_ This is so helpful ty! I am just now reading "Contingency and Alaska History: How Congress's 1817 Cessation of Treaty-Making Helped Create ANCSA a Hundred Years Later" by Stephen Haycox, in "The Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole" which I don't see on here yet...
Paperback, 2020
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Eye of the Wild
Nastassja MartinBathsheba Demuth@helen__jukes @rebecca_altman Thank you both! I’m just starting In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, which is def not stodgy nature writing…plus bears!
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Sunil AmrithBathsheba Demuth@Naturesoul123 I've been reading northern river books lately, like @Brian_Castner's Disappointment River. Also parts of John McPhee's Coming into the Country. There are some excellent river histories too, like Sunil Amrith's Unruly Waters and Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams
Hardcover, 2018
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter JohnsonBathsheba Demuth@Naturesoul123 I've been reading northern river books lately, like @Brian_Castner's Disappointment River. Also parts of John McPhee's Coming into the Country. There are some excellent river histories too, like Sunil Amrith's Unruly Waters and Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams
Paperback, 2017
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book