Vincent Stanley and Yvon Chouinard’s book "The Future of the Responsible Company" reflects on the first fifty years of the outdoor retailer Patagonia. Co-written by the company’s founder, the book looks at the purpose-driven... Read More
Personal memoir, travelogue, and history combine in María Sonia Cristoff’s "False Calm", a journey that peels back the layers of the ghostly fog blanketing Patagonia to reveal engrossing complexity. With quiet introspection, Cristoff... Read More
In "Life Lived Wild", outdoorsman, writer, filmmaker, and conservationist Rick Ridgeway recounts his thrilling adventures in the world’s most remote regions. Ridgeway’s daring life is filled with newsworthy firsts. He was the first... Read More
This concentration of excellent advice is worth several close reads, not only for environmental activists, but for any nonprofit grassroots movement. Featuring names as big as 350.org and Jane Goodall, this collection of environmental... Read More
Blanchard shares a legacy of technical and literary pioneers in alpine climbing in this extraordinarily well-written mountaineering memoir. The title page of The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains reads, “Patagonia publishes titles... Read More
This high-level discussion of how to engender brand loyalty deserves to be a seminal work on the subject. So many books written about brand loyalty address the same basic premise: that brands need to form strong emotional bonds with... Read More
The essays of fly fisherman Dylan Tomine’s "Headwaters" cast into global waters, seeking to feed a lifelong addiction. Tomine’s angling obsession began when he caught a steelhead salmon in Oregon as a boy. His passion lured him to... Read More
Pumas (also known as cougars, mountain lions, and ghost cats) are the least familiar of North and South America’s big cats. Seldom-seen loners, their numbers are growing even as other species diminish. In "Path of the Puma", biologist... Read More