Environment & Conservation

The land and the life on it — conservation and its founders, the naturalists who watched a single parish or a whole continent, and the first warnings that the world could be used up.

• A Guide to the Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End John Ayrton Paris
• A History of Epidemic Pestilences Edward Bascome
• A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks Angus M. Woodbury
• A Report on the Practice of Interment in Towns Edwin Chadwick
• A Year at the Shore Philip Henry Gosse
• African Nature Notes and Reminiscences Frederick Courteney Selous
• American Big Game in Its Haunts George Bird Grinnell
• Animals’ Rights Henry S. Salt
• Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra J. Rand Capron
• Australasia A. J. Sargent
• Beautiful Birds Edmund Selous
• Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies Chester A. Reed
• Botanical Features of the Algerian Sahara William Austin Cannon
• California: The Land of the Sun Mary Austin
• Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau
• Ceylon: An Account of the Island James Emerson Tennent
• Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
• Climate and Health in Hot Countries G. M. J. Giles
• Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations James Croll
• Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes Ellsworth Huntington
• Commercial Geography Jacques W. Redway
• Comparative Geography Carl Ritter
• Conservation Reader Harold W. Fairbanks
• Cuba Past and Present Richard Davey
• Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Anonymous
• Desert and Water Gardens of the Red Sea Cyril Crossland
• Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett
• Ethnology of the Ungava District Lucien M. Turner
• Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment Ellen H. Richards
• Excursions Henry David Thoreau
• Hampshire Days W. H. Hudson
• Hertfordshire Herbert W. Tompkins
• Human Origins Samuel Laing
• Hygeia, a City of Health Benjamin Ward Richardson
• Hygiene: A Manual of Personal and Public Health Arthur Newsholme
• In Beaver World Enos A. Mills
• Island Life Alfred Russel Wallace
• Landscape in History, and Other Essays Archibald Geikie
• Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The Earl of Caithness
• Lectures on Ventilation Lewis W. Leeds
• Migration of Birds Frederick C. Lincoln
• Millions from Waste Frederick A. Talbot
• Minnesota: Its Character and Climate Ledyard Bill
• Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921 Mallory & Wollaston Howard-Bury
• Municipal Housecleaning William Parr Capes
• Nature Mysticism J. Edward Mercer
• Our National Parks John Muir
• Our Nuclear Future Edward Teller & Albert Latter
• Our Vanishing Wild Life William T. Hornaday
• Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal Henry N. Ogden
• Report on the Lands of the Arid Region John Wesley Powell
• Research Methods in Ecology Frederic E. Clements
• Rural Hygiene Henry N. Ogden
• Rural Rides William Cobbett
• Science in Arcady Grant Allen
• Spadacrene Anglica: The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
• The Beauties of Nature John Lubbock
• The Columbia River William Denison Lyman
• The Development of the Feeling for Nature Alfred Biese
• The Dwelling House George Vivian Poore
• The Extermination of the American Bison William T. Hornaday
• The Fight for Conservation Gifford Pinchot
• The Filtration of Public Water-Supplies Allen Hazen
• The Flea Harold Russell
• The Flower-Fields of Alpine Switzerland G. Flemwell
• The Game Fish of the Northern States Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
• The Giant Sequoia Rodney Sydes Ellsworth
• The Harvest of the Sea James Glass Bertram
• The Heart of Nature Francis Younghusband
• The Holy Earth L. H. Bailey
• The Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts David L. Belding
• The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer’s Handbook H. Percy Boulnois
• The Natural History of Selborne Gilbert White
• The Natural History of Wiltshire John Aubrey
• The Naturalist in La Plata W. H. Hudson
• The Naturalist on the Thames C. J. Cornish
• The Ocean and Its Wonders R. M. Ballantyne
• The School Book of Forestry Charles Lathrop Pack
• The Storm Daniel Defoe
• The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century John Ruskin
• The Story of Man in Yellowstone Merrill D. Beal
• The Story of the Hills H. N. Hutchinson
• The Taleef Shereef, or Indian Materia Medica Unknown
• The Training of a Forester Gifford Pinchot
• The Yellowstone National Park Hiram Martin Chittenden
• Venezuela Leonard V. Dalton
• Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes David I. Bushnell
• Walking Henry David Thoreau
• War Gardens Montague Free
• Western Himalaya and Tibet Thomas Thomson
• Woodland Gleanings Robert Tyas
• Yorkshire Vales and Wolds Gordon Home
• Your National Parks Enos A. Mills