Oxford University Press

Aldo Leopold's collection of essays from the 1940s is the foundational text of the American conservation movement. Written from his weekend shack in rural Wisconsin, it builds from close observation of cranes and wildflowers to the land ethic — the idea that humans are not conquerors of the land but citizens of it.

Mark Spence's history of how America's national parks were created by removing the indigenous people who lived in them. Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier — each park was somebody's home before it was nobody's. Essential and uncomfortable.