(Part 2) Top products from r/EarthPorn

Beautiful. Did you ever read The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie De Poala? That was one of my favorite books growing up. I loved the illustrations.

I studied YAB while doing a photography qualification, and he's one of my favourite photographers. His books are great, but if you get a chance then it's well worth seeing the live exhibits (usually outdoors in parks, or outside museums) where the images are printed at an enormous size.

I also seem to remember him saying that he intentionally underexposed the photographs by 1-2 stops to help bring out the deep colours you see.

You sound like an INFJ personality type and somewhat introverted like me. If so, you should read this book to better understand yourself and how you are not odd but different and you have a valuable place in the social and professional milieu:

https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=quiet+the+power+of+introverts+in+a+world+that+can%27t+stop+talking&qid=1559264003&s=gateway&sprefix=Quiet&sr=8-3

Since the issue seems to be coming up a lot in the comments, anyone interested in the water politics (and history) of the American West should read this book. It is a long read and can be hard to follow at times, but it's absolutely fascinating.

Tony Horwitz's book was awesome as well. (https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Rising-Brown-Sparked-Civil/dp/0312429266)

Great book featuring saguaros and a pet rat, Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli (maniac Magee is also fantastic!).

https://www.amazon.com/Stargirl-Jerry-Spinelli/dp/037582233X

Thank you. This helps me imagine the scenery described in The Moor.

Excellent film, available in English too. It's drawn largely from this book: https://www.amazon.com/White-Spider-Story-North-Eiger/dp/0246641096

If you are interested in the Skeleton Coast, you should read Skeletons on the Zahara.

Please don't read just "Into Thin Air" to get the complete picture. Boukreev's book offers a kind of rebuttal to a lot of stuff that Krakauer wrote in his book. I am not picking one over the other. I just think you should hear multiple accounts of it, because Krakauer is pretty scathing in his attacks on Boukreev and I feel there is a little bias that comes through in his words.

Okay: https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Dating-Tactics-Strategies-Secrets/dp/0452280117

I read a book about the 1980 eruption, and one of the parts that really stuck with me was Mr. Truman. He was made into a local hero for being stubborn and refusing to leave during evacuations because it was his home and he'd lived with the volcano for decades.

However, I think it was a reporter that went to interview him and said he appeared to be scared. I guess being thrust into a role as a folk hero made him stay despite starting to think otherwise...

EDIT: Here is the book for anyone interested.

www.amazon.com/Eruption-Untold-Story-Mount-Helens/dp/0393353583

You should all buy a copy of Atlas of Remote Islands.

>Yeah, can you imagine Shakespeare written in text speak?

https://www.amazon.com/YOLO-Juliet-OMG-Shakespeare-William/dp/0553535390

Relevant

Norweigan Wood!

Icelandic crime noir book which has some focus on this lake.

https://www.amazon.com/Draining-Lake-Inspector-Erlendur-Novel/dp/0312428588

Yikes! This is fast moving whitewater on slippery granite only meters from a half mile tall waterfall. It most certainly is NOT safe here. Maybe waaay upstream. OP is on the bridge, thankfully. Read Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite . Water kills in Yose.

Yes, this is correct, especially in California. Historically, native Californians would use fire annually and were an integrate part of the ecosystem, having a role just like animals, plants, and the weather. Anthropogenic fire played an important part as it encouraged growth of grasses crucial for hunting, cleared underbrush in forests for easier mobility, and also eliminated ground pests (mosquitoes, fleas, etc.), and would even reduce the amount of Poison Oak! The Early Spanish Explorer to the San Francisco Bay, Juan Crespi, described the forests as "park-like" and noted the extensive use of fire being used by Native Californians in 1770. Since fire was regularly used, fuel loads were minimal and were mainly ground fires, rarely reaching the crown. In fact, it is theorized that if fire was regularly introduced into California ecosystems, the large scale, devastating crown fires would become a rarity and not the norm. However, there are a several political factors as well as cultural that would prevent this from happening. An interesting book on the subject is Stephen Pyne's Fire: A Brief History, definitely worth checking out.

tl;dr: Natural wildfires are important but so are controlled, anthropogenic fires to California ecosystems. Anthropogenic fire was crucial in the development of California ecosystems and to remove is just as dangerous, and negligent, as allowing fuel loads to accumulate and devastate the same ecosystems.