Wild Book Club: A Quarterly Book Club

We have decided to start a Wild Book of the Quarter Club. Our mission is to inspire people to become champions for the unique landscape that makes up the Basin and Range Region. An important part of helping us reach our mission is educating people on the Basin and Range Region and getting them excited about the outdoors in general.. We feel starting a Wild Book Club is a great and fun way to accomplish this. We plan to include books that focus on the Basin and Range; the Great Basin,; and other fun, interesting and inspirational outdoor and wild books..

We decided to go with a quarterly rather than a monthly club because we know people are busy and want to give them ample time to read the books.  If you have any titles you'd like to see be part of the club please let me know, renee@basinandrange.org. 

We would love for you to join us in the book club. No need to become a member or sign up, but we'd love to hear from you so we know people are reading along with us.

Also, if we get enough people involved. I'd like to start a discussion forum here on our site.

Book 1: Basin and Range

What better book to start off the wild book club than John McPhee's Basin and Range!  We got a bit of a late start, but the first quarter is January 1-April 1.  Good reading to you!

"The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists,Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world―a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale."

Clink on the ad to the left to purchase the book.

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