Hello all, I recently received my B.S. in Environmental Science with an emphasis in Management from Northern Arizona University, and if I had not read Ishmael, I may be in a very different place right now. It was a required reading of my A.P. Environmental Science class my Senior year of high-school, and by the time I was done reading it, I knew what I wanted to major in and here I am now. I agree with Jochen Jaeger with respect that it is easy to read, simplified, and very inspiring to young adults. I would strongly suggest you include Ishmael by Daniel Quinn in this reading list.
Additionally, although you do already have it listed, The Sand County Almanac by Leopold cannot be left out of any Environmental education. The " Land Ethic" was the most referenced piece of literature throughout my multidisciplinary course of study. Cheers, William Lee On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Jaeger Jochen <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, I agree, it is a wonderful list, thank you for compiling it! > > I haven't seen "Ishmael" by David Quinn (1992) on the list (nor the sequel > "My Ishmael" by the same author). > What do people think about it? > > I think it makes some important points very clear (even though in some > parts it simplifies some things a bit). In my view it makes a good > introductory reading to inspire young people to go into ecology and/or > environmental sciences. > > Best regards, > Jochen Jaeger > > Concordia University, Montreal > Dept. of Geography, Planning and Environment > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of Dolly > Lyne Crawford > Sent: Tue 2/17/2009 4:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Book list > > Jennifer, > > what a wonderful list you've compiled! Looks like I have a > bit of reading to myself! > I was impressed by some of the books recommended, such as > One River and Tears of the Cheetah > and others > > We hosted David Quammen for Darwin Day last week, and it > was fun getting to know a bit > about him. He is currently working on a book about viruses > incl. epidemiological dynamics... > > Cheers, > > Dolly Crawford > U New Mexico > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:49:57 -0500 > "Miller, Jennifer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Several weeks ago I asked for recommendations of books > >similar to "Song > > of the Dodo" by David Quammen. My sincere thanks to > >everyone who > > responded; I have quite a bit of reading ahead of me! > > > > > > > > Here is the list of books recommended, listed in no > >particular order. > > > > > > > > Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal > >Ancestors > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312339003/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Stephen > >J. O'Brien > > > > Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic > >Lakes > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1934137081/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bill > >Green > > > > Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's > >Coasts and Beneath > > the Seas > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805061223/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Carl > >Safina > > > > Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805062297/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Carl > >Safina > > > > Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, > >Shameful > > Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520225147/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Brian > >Czech > > > > One River > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684834960/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Wade > >Davis > > > > The Trees in My Forest > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929421/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bernd > >Heinrich > > > > The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375760393/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Michael > >Pollan > > > > Naturalist > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446671991/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance> - Edward O. Wilson > > > > The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393064980/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Stephen > >Jay Gould > > > > The Voyage of the Beagle > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1426203918/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Charles > >Darwin > > > > The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern > >Classics) > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141186070/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - John > >Steinbeck > > > > A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat Of > >Species > > Invasions (Scope Series - Scientific Committee on Pro) > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559630515/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Yvonne > >Baskin > > > >Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate > >Change > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001FA23YK/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - > >Elizabeth Kolbert > > > > Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of > >the American > > Prairie > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140233881/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Richard > >Manning > > > > Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles > >of History and > > the Mind > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393326098/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - David > >Quammen > > > > 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400032059/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Charles > >C. Mann > > > > Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green > >Revolution--and How It Can > > Renew America > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374166854/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Thomas > >L. Friedman > > > > Last Chance to See > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345371984/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Douglas > >Adams > > > > Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million > >Years Ago > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691136289/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Douglas > >H. Erwin > > > > A Sand County's Almanac - Aldo Leopold > > > > Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 > >(P.S.) > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060838590/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Simon > >Winchester > > > > The World Without Us > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001C2E0QK/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Alan > >Weisman > > > > King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813342996/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - David > >Montgomery > > > > Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon > >Crisis > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559633611/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - James > >A. Lichatowich > > > > Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262571218/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Tijs > >Goldschmidt > > > > Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374530432/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Alan > >Burdick > > > > Ravens in Winter > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679732365/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Bernd > >Heinrich > > > > Arctic Dreams > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727485/ref=ord_cart_s > > hr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Barry > >Lopez > > > > The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time > > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067973337X/ref=pd_luc_mri > > ?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance> - Jonathan > >Weiner > > > > > > > > > > > > Jennie Miller > > > > Research Assistant > > > > Smithsonian Institution > > > > National Museum of Natural History > > > > Department of Vertebrate Zoology > > > > P.O. Box 37012, MRC 108 > > > > Washington, DC 20013-7012 > > > > Tel: 202-633-1250 > > > >Fax: 202-786-2979 > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > Street location: > > > > 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW > > > > Washington, DC 20560 > > > > > > Dolly L. Crawford > Department of Biology > MSC03 2020 > 1 University of New Mexico > Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 > 505-277-7551 (Office) > 505-277-3859 (Lab) > http://www.unm.edu/~crawdoll/VertZoology/Index.htm >
