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Books by David Gessner
  | | Ultimate Glory Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth by David Gessner Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-1056-1, ISBN: 0-7352-1056-X "A story of obsession, glory, and the wild early days of Ultimate Frisbee. Before he made a name for himself as an acclaimed essayist and nature writer, David Gessner devoted his twenties to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Like his teammates and rivals, he trained for countless hours, sacrificing his body and potential career for a chance at fleeting glory without fortune or fame. His only goal: to win Nationals and go down in ..." |
 | | Soaring with Fidel(1st Edition) An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond by David Gessner Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2008 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-8579-0, ISBN: 0-8070-8579-0 "A Book Sense Notable Title "As Gessner pursues [the ospreys] down the Eastern Seaboard and even into Cuba with a BBC documentary team at his heels, a lively tale of fish-eating raptors, broken embargoes and a nail-biting race to the finish line ensues . . . Gessner finds his Mecca not in the thrilling launch or triumphant end of his own 7,000-mile migration, but in the living done in between." Jennifer Winger, "Nature Conservancy Magazi ..." |
 | | Leave It As It Is A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness by David Gessner Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-982105-04-4, ISBN: 1-982105-04-6 "An urgent call to protect America’s public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner’s American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide. “Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s rallying cry signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that ..." |
 | | The Prophet of Dry Hill(Reprint) Lessons from a Life in Nature by David Gessner Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-0598-9, ISBN: 0-8070-0598-3 "David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature writing legend, Hay was a hero to the younger writer. But it wasn't until Gessner returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that he befriended the older man. At first, Gessner thought he might write Hay's biography. But that idea gradually changed as the two talked and walked through the fifty acres surrounding Hay's house on Dry Hill. The book that resulted is a dramatic record of w ..." |
 | | All The Wild That Remains(1st Edition) Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35237-5, ISBN: 0-393-35237-4 "An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National ..." |
 | | My Green Manifesto(1st Edition) Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism by David Gessner Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-324-9, ISBN: 1-57131-324-9 "In "My Green Manifesto," David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston s Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess. But as Dan recounts his own story of transforming the famously po ..." |
 | | Leave It as It Is A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness (Paperback) by David Gessner Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2021 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-982105-05-1, ISBN: 1-982105-05-4 ""An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--" |
 | | The Tarball Chronicles A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill by David Gessner Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-333-1, ISBN: 1-57131-333-8 "The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history: over the course of three months, nearly five million barrels of crude oil gushed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and washed up along our coast. Yet it was an avoidable environmental catastrophe preceded by myriad others, from Three-Mile Island to the Exxon Valdez.Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fish ..." |
 | | A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World (Paperback) by David Gessner Paperback, Published 2023 by Torrey House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-948814-81-2, ISBN: 1-948814-81-1 |
 | | Wonder and Other Survival Skills(1st Edition) by Diane Ackerman, Susanne Antonetta, Rick Bass, Michael P. Branch, John Calderazzo, Anthony Doerr, Chris Dombrowski, Brian Doyle, David Gessner, Aleria Jensen, Amy Leach, Teddy Macker, Scott Russell Sanders, Georgian Valoyce-Sanchez, Ann Zwinger, Kristi Dranginis, H. Emerson Blake Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 2012 by The Orion Society ISBN-13: 978-1-935713-02-9, ISBN: 1-935713-02-7 "Is wonder really a survival skill? Between the urgency of the problems facing our planet and the chaos of our own busy lives, it might seem naive to place "cultivate wonder" at the top of a list of priorities. Yet that is exactly what the authors in this collection suggest: that wonder is necessary, that it might just be what saves us. Readers have long turned to Orion to be reminded of the things that really matter, to build their inne ..." |
 | | The Prophet of Dry Hill(1st Edition) Lessons From a Life in Nature by David Gessner Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-8568-4, ISBN: 0-8070-8568-5 "David Gessner had always known of John Hay. A nature writing legend, Hay was a hero to the younger writer. But it wasn't until Gessner returned to his childhood home on Cape Cod that he befriended the older man. At first, Gessner thought he might write Hay's biography. But that idea gradually changed as the two talked and walked through the fifty acres surrounding Hay's house on Dry Hill. The book that resulted is a dramatic record of w ..." |
 | | Animals & People(1st Edition) by Craig Childs, Lisa Couturier, Brian Doyle, David Gessner, Kathleen Jamie, Christopher Ketcham, Amy Leach, J.B. Mackinnon, Sy Montgomery, Mary Oliver, Pattiann Rogers, Jason Mintzer, H. Emerson Blake, Jane Goodall, Orion Magazine Staff Paperback, 121 Pages, Published 2013 by The Orion Society ISBN-13: 978-1-935713-10-4, ISBN: 1-935713-10-8 "Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, protect them, cause them suffering. The essays collected here explore these contradicitons in all their difficulty, but they also celebrate our connection to the animal world and provide a model for how we might respect and revere our fellow anim ..." |
 | | All The Wild That Remains(1st Edition) Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08999-8, ISBN: 0-393-08999-1 "An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National ..." |
 | | Soaring with Fidel(1st Edition) An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond by David Gessner Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-8578-3, ISBN: 0-8070-8578-2 "One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for years, David Gessner impulsively decided to follow the birds on their annual migration. Each fall these graceful raptors, with wingspans of up to six feet, cruise over the eastern United States, then soar over Cuba and winter in South America, returning north with the spring. In 2004, Gessner went along for the ride, traveling illegally into the mountains of Cuba and deep into V ..." |
 | | Return of the Osprey(Reprint) A Season of Flight and Wonder by David Gessner Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 2002 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-45016-6, ISBN: 0-345-45016-7 "There was a time, not so long ago, when the osprey, or fish hawk, was a common sight along the New England shore. Taking up residence in tall trees that commanded a wide view of sea and sky, the osprey summered along the Atlantic coast, migrating far south to Brazil when the weather turned cold, returning north to nest year after year. That ancient cycle was cut short when DDT-based pesticides entered the ospreys' food chain and caused ..." |
 | | Return of the Osprey(1st Edition) A Season of Flight and Wonder by David Gessner Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 2001 by Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-254-3, ISBN: 1-56512-254-2 "There was a time, not so long ago, when the osprey, or fish hawk, was a common sight along the New England shore. Taking up residence in tall trees that commanded a wide view of sea and sky, the osprey summered along the Atlantic coast, migrating far south to Brazil when the weather turned cold, returning north to nest year after year. That ancient cycle was cut short when DDT-based pesticides entered the ospreys' food chain and caused ..." |
 | | Under the Devil's Thumb(2nd Edition) by David Gessner Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1924-8, ISBN: 0-8165-1924-2 "David Gessner first moved to Colorado in the wake of a bout with cancer. In Under the Devil's Thumb, this young New Englander takes readers on a joyous quest to discover the mysteries of the western landscape and the landscape of the soul as well. In the West Gessner began to rewrite his life. Under the Devil's Thumb is a story of rugged determination and sweat, as well as humor, adventure and hope. In and around his new home ..." |
 | | Ultimate Glory Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth by David Gessner 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-1057-8, ISBN: 0-7352-1057-8 "In the official letter that Steve Goodwin, the local representative of the UPA, sent to Steve Mooney, he charged Titanic three hundred dollars for damage done to the microphone. Goodwin also said that though he understood “that while Steve personally tried to help give Ultimate a clean image,” this sort of behavior reflected poorly on the team. Then he turned his ire on me. Referring to me by my last name—"I know him only as Gessne ..." |
 | | All the Wild That Remains Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner 320 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24678-0, ISBN: 0-393-24678-7 "I was nervous about meeting Doug Peacock. At that point in my life I was rarely starstruck, but Peacock was different. I didn't have many living heroes left; Peacock was one. It wasn't just his lofty place in the Abbey firmament. It was the fact that I was a great admirer of his book Grizzly Years, which was as packed full of wildness as any book I had ever read, Desert Solitaire included. Though Peacock was not primarily a writer, ..." |
 | | A Wild, Rank Place One Year on Cape Cod by David Gessner 149 Pages, Published 2012 by Upne ISBN-13: 978-1-61168-144-4, ISBN: 1-61168-144-8 "When she returned to the Cape, without her husband but with four kids, Heidi tried to bring pieces of the farm back ... Sitting in front of the wood stove with Heidi and Becky and Elizabeth, I'd settle back on pillows and stare happily at the TV." |
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