Bibliography

TEXTS INCLUDED IN TUITION:

• • Berger, Wolf. Coast to Crest and Beyond.

  • Pryde, Philip. San Diego: An Introduction to the Region (New Fifth Edition).

OPTIONAL READING SUGGESTIONS:

ANIMALS

• • Local Tracks of North America: A Quick Guide.

  • Burt, WH & Grossenheider. Mammals. Peterson Field Guides.

  • Scats & Track of the Pacific Coast – A Falcon Guide.

  • Stebbins, RC. Western Reptiles & Amphibians. Peterson Field Guides.

BIRDS

• • Local Birds of San Diego County: A Quick Guide.

  • Clarke, Herbert. An Introduction to Southern California Birds.

  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to California.

  • Peterson, RT. A Field Guide to Western Birds.

  • Stokes, Donald & Lillian. Field Guide to Birds: Western Region.

  • Sisley, David Allen. What It’s Like To Be A Bird. 

ECOLOGY & ETHICS

• • Berry, T. The Dream of the Earth.

  • Harwell, K & Reynolds, J. Exploring a Sense of Place: How to Create Your Own Local Program for Reconnecting with Nature.

  • Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.  The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder.

  • Louv, Richard.  Vitamin N. 

  • Louv, Richard. Our Wild Calling.

  • Wilson, EO. In Search of Nature.  The Biophilia Hypothesis.

GEOLOGY

• • Abbott, PL. The Rise and Fall of San Diego County.

  • Bergen, FW, et al. Geology of San Diego County: Legacy of the Land.

  • Berger, Wolf. Walk Along the Ocean.

HIKING

• • Hewitt, LB & Moore, BC. Walking San Diego.

  • Leech, Tom and Farnan, Jack. Outdoors San Diego: Hiking, Biking, and Camping.

  • Schad, Jerry. Afoot and Afield in San Diego County.

  • Lister, Pricilla. Take a Hike

INDIGENOUS HISTORY

• • Carrico, RL. Strangers in a Stolen Land: American Indians in San Diego.

  • Lee, Melicent. Indians of the Oaks.

  • Shipek, FC. Delfina Cuero: her Autobiography Pushed into the Rocks.

REFLECTION: JOURNALING & SKETCHING

• • Cornell, Joseph. Listening to Nature.

  • Hinchman, Hannah. Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as Path to Place.

  • Johnson, Cathy. The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature.

  • Leslie, Clare Walker. Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You.

  • Simmonds, Jackie. You Can sketch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners.

PLANTS

• • Belzer, JB. Roadside Plants of Southern California.

  • Dale, Nancy. Flowering Plants: The Santa Monica Mountains, coastal & Chaparral Regions of Southern California.

  • Halsey, Richard W. Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California.

  • Lightner, James. San Diego County Native Plants.