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Recommended Reading:
Informative:
"Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner
"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann
"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
"The Map that Changed the World" by Simon Winchester
"The Barren Lands- An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic" by Kevin Krajik
"The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor" by J.E. Gordon
"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Adventurous Accounts:
"The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons" by John Wesley Powell
"Ten Years Under the Earth" by Nobert Casteret
"No Picnic on Mount Kenya" by Felice Benuzzi
"Road Fever" by Tim Cahill
"River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" by Peter Hessler
"Everett Ruess- A Vagabond for Beauty" by W.L. Rusho
Steinbeck:
"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
"The Pastures of Heaven" by John Steinbeck
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"The Log from the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
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