My Library

"By their books shall you known them."  Or something like that.  If we are what we eat, are we also what we read?  Or at least maybe we aspire to what we read.  My interests, at least, are easy to gauge from my books.  This list keeps mostly to books I've acquired over the last few years, with a few older ones of special significance.  I don't know how many books I have in total, but the list here fits into one of the three bookcases I have devoted to my books.  Space is at a premium!

SEA STORIES
Beat to Quarters              C.S. Forester
the other 10 of the Hornblower series   C.S. Forester
Master and Commander              Patrick O’Brian
the other 20 of the Aubrey & Maturin series       Patrick O’Brian
A Sea of Words Dean King
Harbors and High Seas   Dean King
EVOLUTION
From So Simple a Beginning: the four great books of Charles Darwin        Ed. E.O. Wilson
The Ancestor’s Tale        Richard Dawkins
The Book of Life               Stephen J. Gould, Ed.
Darwin: Discovering the tree of life          Niles Eldredge
Darwin and the Barnacles             Rebecca Stott
What Evolution Is             Ernst Mayr
Why Evolution is True    Jerry A. Coyne
Science, Evolution and Creationism         National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine
Evolution for Everyone  David Sloan Wilson
Finding Your Inner Fish  Neil Shubin
Finding Darwin’s God     Kenneth R. Miller
Only a Theory    Kenneth R. Miller
NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
The Unexpected Universe           Loren Eisley
The Firmament of Time Loren Eisley
The Immense Journey   Loren Eisley
A Sand County Almanac                Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold’s Southwest           David E. Brown, Neil B. Carmody, eds.
The Outermost House   Henry Beston
Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey
The Place No One Knew               Elliot Porter
The Edge of theSea         Rachel Carson
MISCELLANEOUS SCIENCE
Einstein’s Heroes: Imagining the world through the language of mathematics     Robyn Arianrhod             
Longitude            Dava Sobel
Parallax                Alan W. Hirshfeld
The Future of Life            E.O. Wilson
Bayou Farewell Mike Tidwell
How We Live      Sherwin B. Nuland
A Field Guide to Bacteria              Betsy Dexter Dyer
Field Guide to the Birds of North America (National Geographic)
Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America
Birding By Ear, Eastern/Central  (Peterson Field Guide)
Annals of the Former World        John McPhee
Dirt: The erosion of civilizations David R. Montgomery
The Botany of Desire      Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma             Michael Pollan
HISTORY
John Adams       David McCullough
1776       David McCullough
Don’t Know Much About History              Kenneth C. Davis
A Journey Long and Strange        Horwitz
True Compass   Edward M. Kennedy
The Last Lion      team at the Boston Globe, Peter Canellos, Ed.
Sea of Glory       Nathaniel Philbrick
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Snk by a Whale          Nickerson and Chase
BOATS
The Craft of Sail: A primer of sailing          Jan Adkins
Sailmaker’s Apprentice Emiliano Marino
How to Read a Nautical Chart     Nigel Calder
A Cruising Guide to Narragansett Bay and the South Coast of Massachusetts       Childress2 & Martin
Boats with an Open Mind             Phil Bolger
Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere   John Vigor
Flagships of Mystic Seaport
American Sailing Small Craft        Howard Chapelle
Sailing Around the World Alone Joshua Slocum
55 Years in Shoal Waters               Charles Stock
Understanding Boat Design         Ted Brewer
Devlin’s Boatbuilding Manual     Samual Devlin
Songs of the Sailor           Glenn Grasso, Ed.
FAITH
The Heart of Christianity               Marcus Borg
IN A LEAGUE BY ITSELF
The More-than-complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy          Douglas Adams