![]() ![]() Also set a long way from the canyonlands, Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams makes the list. ![]() He describes the book as “a meditative classic almost impossible to find in dust-jacketed copies.” For a specialist in the West, this is a notable nod to a book set on the edge of Cape Cod. One is the first edition of Henry Beston’s The Outermost House (1928). Nettell checked these off readily, then hit on some “dark horse” favorites. So are the names already mentioned above. Abbey’s Desert Solitaire (1968) and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), pillars of the mid-twentieth-century environmental movement, are definitely on Nettell’s checklist of foundational books in the field. Another former NPS ranger, Edward Abbey, inspired the original owners of Back of Beyond Books. Nettell, a former National Park Service ranger, specializes in books about regional and natural history. ![]()
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