Sierra Club Books
Parent company | Sierra Club |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder | David Brower |
| Defunct | May 27, 2015 |
| Successor |
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| Country of origin |  United States |
| Headquarters location |  San Francisco |
| Distribution | Publishers Group West |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | Environmentalism |
Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the
Counterpoint LLC and the children's books division to Gibbs Smith
.
History
The Sierra Club started its book program in 1952, when David Brower, an
Elliot Porter's In Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World.[1]
Volumes intended for club members had been
books under their name had been published before 1960, but done through already established publishers, as was the case with This Is Dinosaur, published by Alfred A. Knopf.[2]
Their first in-house book, volume 1 in the Exhibit Format series, was This is the American Earth, published in 1960.Carey–Thomas Award for creative publishing, by Publishers Weekly.[6] Fifty thousand copies were sold in the first four years,[7] and by 1964 sales exceeded 10,000,000 United States dollars.[8] The books were successful in introducing the public to wilderness preservation and to the Sierra Club.[9] Paperback reprints of many of the Exhibit Format books were published by Ballantine Books.[10]
After Brower left the Club in 1969,Counterpoint LLC and the children's books division to Gibbs Smith.[14]
The Club continues to publish the Sierra Club Wilderness Calendar and the Sierra Club Engagement Calendar annually, which are perennial bestsellers. They are distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West.[14]
Partial bibliography
Exhibit Format
- (1960) This is the American Earth, Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall[3]
- (1960) Words of the Earth, photographs by Cedric Wright[15]
- (1960) Time and the River Flowing: Grand Canyon, Philip Hyde and Franćois Leydet[16]
- (1962) These We Inherit: The Parklands of America, Ansel Adams[17]
- (1962) In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, Henry David Thoreau[4]
- (1963) The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, Eliot Porter[18]
- (1963) Ansel Adams: A Biography, Volume 1: The Eloquent Light, Nancy Newhall[19]
- (1964) The Last Redwoods: Photographs and Story of a Vanishing Scenic Resource, Philip Hyde and Franćois Leydet[20]
- (1964) Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada, John Muir and Richard Kauffman[21]
- (1965) Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast, Robinson Jeffers[22]
- (1965) The Wild Cascades: Forgotten Parkland, Harvey Manning[23]
- (1965) Everest: The West Ridge, Thomas F. Hornbein[24]
- (1966) Summer Island: Penobscot Country, Eliot Porter[25]
- (1966) Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence, Dave Bohn[26]
- (1969) Navajo Wildlands: As Long as The Rivers Shall Run, Stephen Jett[27]
- (1969) Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii, Robert Wenkam[28]
- (1967) Baja California and the Geography of Hope, Joseph Wood Krutch[29]
- (1968) Central Park Country: A Tune Within Us, Mireille Johnston[30]
- (1968) Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 1: Discovery, Eliot Porter[31]
- (1968) Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 2: Prospect, Eliot Porter[32]
Battlebooks
- (1971) Oil on Ice: Alaskan Wilderness at the Crossroads, Tom Brown[33]
- (1971) Mercury: How Much Are We Eating?, Katherine and Peter Montague[34]
Yolla Bolly Press
- (1984) The Wilder Shore, David Rains Wallace[35]
- (1989) The Yosemite, John Muir[36]
Material World
- (1994) Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Charles C. Mann[37]
- (1996) Women in the Material World, Faith D'Aluisio[38]
Other
- (1962) Island in Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula, Philip Hyde (photographer)[5]
- (1967) On the Loose, Terry and Renny Russell[39]
- (1968) The Population Bomb, Paul R. Ehrlich[40]
- (1973) On the Shore of the Sundown Sea, T.H. Watkins[41]
- (1974) Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region, Walter A. Starr, Jr.[42]
- (1977) The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Wendell Berry[43]
- (1977) Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Donald Worster[44]
- (1978) The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook, David Rains Wallace[45]
- (1979) Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, Steve Roper and Allen Steck[46]
- (1980) Annapurna: A Woman's Place, Arlene Blum[47]
- (1983) The Klamath Knot: Explorations in Myth and Evolution, David Rains Wallace[48]
- (1983) The River Why, David James Duncan
- (1986) In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature, Andreas Feininger[49]
- (1990) Wild by Law: The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved, Tom Turner[50]
- (1990) California's Wild Heritage: Threatened and Endangered Animals in the Golden State, Peter Steinhart[51]
- (1991) In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, Jerry Mander[52]
- (1992) Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers and Writers, Judith Boice, editor[53]
- (1995) Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, Theodore Roszak, Allen D. Kanner and Mary E. Gomes[54]
- (1997) The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America, David Rains Wallace[55]
- (1997) Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area, Galen Rowell and Michael Sewell[56]
- (2001) The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland, Kenneth Brower[57]
- (2006) Galen Rowell: A Retrospective, Andy Grundberg[58]
- (2009) Gloryland: A Novel, Shelton Johnson[59]
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- ^ Stegner, Wallace (1955). This is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers. Alfred A. Knopf – via Google Books.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-87156-001-8 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Thoreau, Henry David (1962). Porter, Eliot (ed.). In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-68413-439-0 – via Google Books.
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- San Francisco, California. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Nichols, Lewis (8 December 1968). "Sierra Club Books". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c "Sierra Club Office of the Executive Director Records". 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Werris, Wendy (28 January 2013). "Obituary: Jon Beckmann, Former Sierra Club Books Publisher, Dead at 76". Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ Beren, Peter. "Peter Beren: Professional History". Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "Helen Sweetland, NCBS Board Member & Highway One Musician, Publisher Of Sierra Club Books". ncbs.info. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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- ISBN 978-1-01494-274-6 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hyde, Philip; Litton, Martin (1960). Brower, David (ed.). Time and the River Flowing: Grand Canyon. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Adams, Ansel (1960). Brower, David (ed.). These We Inherit: The Parklands of America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Porter, Eliot (1963). Brower, David (ed.). The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Newhall, Nancy (1963). Brower, David (ed.). Ansel Adams: A Biography, Volume 1: The Eloquent Light. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Hyde, Philip; Leydet, Franćois (1964). Brower, David (ed.). The Last Redwoods: Photographs and Story of a Vanishing Scenic Resource. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-87156-106-0 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-34525-539-6 – via Google Books.
- ^ Manning, Manning (1965). Brower, David (ed.). The Wild Cascades: Forgotten Parkland. Foreword by William O. Douglas. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-89886-616-2 – via Google Books.
- ^ Porter, Eliot (1966). Brower, David (ed.). Summer Island: Penobscot Country. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Bohn, Dave (1966). Brower, David (ed.). Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Jett, Stephen (1969). Kenneth, David (ed.). Navajo Wildlands: As Long as The Rivers Shall Run. Photographs by Philip Hyde. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Wenkam, Robert (1969). Brower, Kenneth (ed.). Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Krutch, Joseph Wood (1967). Brower, Kenneth (ed.). Baja California and the Geography of Hope. Photographs by Eliot Porter. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Johnston, Mireille (1968). Brower, David (ed.). Central Park Country: A Tune Within Us. Photographs by Nancy and Retta Johnson; Introduction by Marianne Moore. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Porter, Eliot (1968). Brower, Kenneth (ed.). Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 1: Discovery. Introduction by Loren Eiseley, with selected text from Charles Darwin and Herman Melville. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Porter, Eliot (1968). Brower, Kenneth (ed.). Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 2: Prospect. Introduction by Loren Eiseley, with selected text from Charles Darwin and Herman Melville. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – via Google Books.
- Brown, Tom (1971). Oil on Ice: Alaskan Wilderness at the Crossroads. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- ^ Montague, Katherine; Montague, Peter (1971). Mercury: How Much Are We Eating?. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
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- ^ Turner, Tom (1990). Wild by Law: The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved. Illustrated by Carr Clifton, Philip Hyde Et al. San Francisco: Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
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