Mansfield University Home PageTheme = Journeys
Social Science and Public Service
Books:
Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ballantine Books,
ISBN: 978-0345350688
Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman’s Life among the Aborigines, Julia Blackburn, Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0679744467
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, Anchor; Reissue edition,
ISBN-13: 978-030738
Mississippi Solo, Eddy Harris, Holt Paperbacks,
ISBN-13: 978-0805059038
My Name is Rachel Corrie, Katherine Viner, Theatre Communications Group,
ISBN-13: 978-1559362962
Road Song, Natalie Kusz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
ISBN-13: 978-0374528270
Teaching Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi, Random House Trade Paperbacks,
ISBN-13: 978-0812971064
The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community, Mary Pipher, Harvest Books, ISBN-13: 978-0156027373
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff, Grove Press,
ISBN-13: 978-0802136688
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortensen, Penguin,
ISBN-13: 978-0143038252
Films:
- East-West
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Smoke Signals
- The New Explorers: Expedition Inspiration
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- TransAmerica
Science and Technology
Books:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, HarperCollins,
ISBN-13: 978-0571233557
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson, Anchor,
ISBN-13: 978-0307279460
Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey into Motherhood, Sandra Steingraber, Berkley Trade,
ISBN-13: 978-0425189993
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder, Random House Trade Paperbacks,
ISBN-13: 978-0812973013
Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen, Vintage; New Ed edition,
ISBN-13: 978-0099771111
Tents in the Clouds: The First Women’s Himalayan Expedition, Stark and Johnson, Seal Press, ISBN-13: 978-1580050333
The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of Chemical Elements, P. W. Atkins, Basic Books, ISBN-13: 978-0465072668
Travels in Alaska, John Muir, Dodo Press,
ISBN-13: 978-1406582802
Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin, Penguin Classics (abridged edition),
ISBN-13: 978-0140432688
Wandering Home, Bill McKibben, Crown,
ISBN-13: 978-0609610732
Films:
- Aliens of the Deep
- Allosaurus (from the Walking with . . . series)
- Cosmic Voyage
- Journeys to the Edge of Creation
- March of the Penguins
- Never Cry Wolf
- The Race to the Moon
- Voyage to the Planets and Beyond
- Winged Migration
- Arts and Humanities
Literature
Books:
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko, Penguin Books,
ISBN-13: 978-0143104919
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston, MacMillan,
ISBN-13: 978-0330263672
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier, Grove Press,
ISBN-13: 978-0802142849
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee, Grove Press,
ISBN-13: 978-0802136305
Kolyma Tales (“A Child’s Drawings,” “Lend-Lease”), Varlam Shalamov, Penguin Classics,
ISBN-13: 978-0140186956
Letters from Yellowstone, Diane Smith, Penguin,
ISBN-13: 978-0140291810
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler, Grand Central Publishing; Warner Books Ed edition,
ISBN-13: 978-0446675505
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Matsuo Basho, Penguin Classics, ISBN-13: 978-0140441857
The Odyssey (Fagles translation), Penguin Classics,
ISBN-13: 978-0143039952
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, ed. by Lillian Schlissel, Schocken,
ISBN-13: 978-0805211764
Films:
- 28 Days
- Easy Rider
- Little Miss Sunshine
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Paradise Now
- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Thelma and Louise
Supplemental:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Canary Row, Erskine Caldwell
Confessions, Rousseau
Conversations with My Father, Herb Gardner
Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Deliverance, James Dickey
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and my Journey to Freedom, Francis Bok
Full Moon Boat, Fred Marchant
Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, John Man
Grendel, John Gardner
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Matryona’s Home, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mother Love, Rita Dove
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
Pushing the Bear, Diana Glancy
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft, William Craft
Saving the World, Julia Alvarez
Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
The Beforelife, Franz Wright
The Book of Exodus
The Last Season, Erich Blehm
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century, James Howard Kunstler
The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski
The Way to Rainy Mountain, Scott Momaday
Time: A Traveler’s Guide, Clifford A. Pickover
Thomas and Beulah, Rita Dove
Utopia, Thomas More
