Further Reading
Elizabeth Kolbert's reading list for Life on a Little-Known Planet
We have begun inviting guests on The World in Time to share Further Reading lists that, in the words of Daniel Mendelsohn, aim “to be of use to general readers interested in learning more.” Here, Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a guest on Episode 15 of our podcast, shares a Further Reading list for those interested in learning more about the biosphere—its flora and fauna, as well as about the “streams of human feeling, behavior, and thought,” that Lewis H. Lapham wrote about here.
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
Beale, Thomas. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale. To Which is Added a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage, In Which the Author Was Personally Engaged. London: Van Voorst, 1839.
Evans, Howard Ensign. Life on a Little-Known Planet. New York: Dutton, 1968.
Goodell, Jeff. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Kent, Rockwell. N by E. New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Porter, Eliot. The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. New York: Ballantine, 1968.
Rasmussen, Knud. The People of the Polar North: A Record. Translated by G. Herring. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1908.
Stone, Christopher D. “Should Trees Have Standing?—Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects.” Southern California Law Review, vol. 45, 1972.
Wagner, David L. Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.