This very enjoyable post over at Transit Notes got me thinking about books. The books I’ve kept, the books I’ve given away (most of them), the books I buy (very few) and the books I’m happy to borrow from the library with no desire to ever own them, but a burning desire to read them.
First of all, I decided to narrow down to the few books I feel I couldn’t live without, in the sense that my life as it is would actually be difficult without them. Here they are:
These are the ones I would miss on a day-to-day basis:
Plants of Northern British Columbia
Mammals of British Columbia
Canoeing and Kayaking BC’s Central Interior
British Columbia: A Natural History
Gotta Hike BC
Bev Gray’s Boreal Herbal
I guess that says a thing or two about my priorities.
A closer look at British Columbia: A Natural History:
The Spruce Kingdom! This is where I live!
. . . and this is the kind of day we're having. Just saw a snowshoe hare this morning.
Very interesting, Fireweed, and thanks for the link. As I said elsewhere, I think that one’s books tend to be a reliable mirror of one’s life, and I think that is clearly the case with your selections. For what it’s worth, I greatly admire those who are intimately familiar with their natural surroundings, so intimate that they can usually identify everything by its proper name. Our friend, The Solitary Walker, is also a very skilled naturalist. By the way, I bet the hiking in BC is sensational!