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The Great Outdoors
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From scholarly studies to guide books, the University of Virginia Press has a long tradition of publishing the best in outdoor-themed books. This spring, the Press offers the following new titles that look outside for their inspiration.
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Peak Experiences:
Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need
by Ian Marshall
Embracing the exciting new field of ecopsychology, Marshall leads us on a personal and intellectual odyssey, from the dream mountain of Henry David Thoreau to the high slopes of John Muir’s beloved Mount Shasta. Always, Marshall returns to his own challenges as father and reader, and to his own humble but rewarding mountain, Bald Eagle Ridge, in the Pennsylvania countryside outside his back door.
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Virginia's Wild Side:
Fifty Outdoor Adventures from the Mountains to the Ocean
by Curtis J. Badger
Dividing Virginia into four regions—the Eastern Shore; the Tidewater, Middle Peninsula, and Northern Neck; Central Virginia and the Highlands; and Southwest Virginia—Badger hikes, bikes, canoes, and kayaks his way through some of the Commonwealth’s best-known, and least-known, natural areas.
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Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore
by Melanie Choukas-Bradley
with illustrations by Tina Thieme Brown
Sugarloaf is a National Natural Landmark and privately owned park that is open to the public year-round. In this natural history and guidebook, Melanie Choukas-Bradley presents a fascinating blend of local, natural, and historical detail that transports the reader simultaneously onto the slopes of today’s mountain and into the region’s past.
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Forest and Garden:
Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949
by Melanie L. Simo
Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate between foresters and landscape professionals were formed and the landscape professions came of age.
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Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion
by F. Marina Schauffler
Turning to Earth offers a window into the heart of environmental change, moving beyond the culture’s traditional reliance on policy reforms and technological measures. It charts the course of “ecological conversion,” a dynamic inner process by which people come to ally themselves with the natural world and speak out on its behalf.
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