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Sierra Club Books

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Book publisher
Sierra Club Books
Parent companySierra Club
Founded1960 (1960)
FounderDavid Brower
DefunctMay 27, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-05-27)
Successor
Country of origin United States
Headquarters locationSan Francisco
DistributionPublishers Group West
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsEnvironmentalism

Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of theSierra Club, founded in 1960 by then club PresidentDavid Brower. They were aUnited States publishing company located inSan Francisco, California with a concentration onbiological conservation. In 2014 the adult division of the organization was sold toCounterpoint LLC and the children's books division toGibbs Smith.

History

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The Sierra Club started its book program in 1952, when David Brower, aneditor with theUniversity of California Press, became the club'sexecutive director. In 1954, they published the first of itsclimbers’ andhikers’ guides. In 1960, when the Sierra Club Books began, they published the ‘Exhibit Format Book Series’, a collection ofnature photography and in 1964 they published their first color volume,Elliot Porter'sIn Wilderness Is the Preservation of the World.[1]

Volumes intended for club members had beenpublished prior to 1960. In addition,books under their name had been published before 1960, but done through already established publishers, as was the case withThis Is Dinosaur, published byAlfred A. Knopf.[2]

Their first in-house book, volume 1 in the Exhibit Format series, wasThis is the American Earth, published in 1960.[3] In 1962, they introducedcolor photography to the series with the publication ofIn Wildness Is the Preservation of the World withphotographs byEliot Porter[4] andIsland In Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula with photographs byPhilip Hyde.[5] The series won the 1964Carey–Thomas Award for creative publishing, byPublishers Weekly.[6] Fifty thousand copies were sold in the first four years,[7] and by 1964 sales exceeded 10,000,000United States dollars.[8] The books were successful in introducing the public towilderness preservation and to the Sierra Club.[9]Paperback reprints of many of the Exhibit Format books were published byBallantine Books.[10]

After Brower left the Club in 1969,[10] the club came under the leadership of Jon Beckmann from 1979 (1979) to 1991 (1991). During Beckmann's tenure the program expanded and diversified considerably, publishing books by established and emergingwriters such asWendell Berry,Robert Bly,Galen Rowell, andDavid Rains Wallace as well asfield guides,fiction,poetry, and books on environmentalactivism, such as the Sierra Club Battlebooks.[11] Many Sierra Club books were produced by the Yolla Bolly Press run by Jim and Carolyn Robertson inCovelo, California.[10] The program continued for two decades after 1994, first under Peter Beren, the formermarketing director,[12] then under Helen Sweetland, the formerchildren's bookseditor.[13] Thepress closed in 2015 with the adult division of the organization being sold toCounterpoint LLC and the children's books division toGibbs Smith.[14]

The Club continues to publish theSierra Club Wilderness Calendar and theSierra Club Engagement Calendar annually, which are perennial bestsellers. They are distributed to the book trade byPublishers Group West.[14]

Partial bibliography

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Exhibit Format

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Battlebooks

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  • (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

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Material World

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  • (1994)Material World: A Global Family Portrait,Charles C. Mann[37]
  • (1996)Women in the Material World, Faith D'Aluisio[38]

Other

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References

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  1. ^Luey, Beth E. (2010).The Oxford Companion to the Book: Sierra Club Books.Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19957-014-0. Retrieved2 December 2022.
  2. ^Stegner, Wallace (1955).This is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers.Alfred A. Knopf – viaGoogle Books.
  3. ^abAdams, Ansel;Newhall, Nancy (1960).Brower, David (ed.).This is the American Earth.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-001-8 – viaGoogle Books.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  4. ^abThoreau, Henry David (1962). Porter, Eliot (ed.).In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  5. ^abHyde, Philip (1974).Island in Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula. Foreword byHarold Gilliam.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-68413-439-0 – viaGoogle Books.
  6. ^Staff writer (15 May 1965)."Sierra Club Wins Book Award for Nature Series".Napa Valley Register. Retrieved4 December 2022 – vianewspapers.com(subscription required).
  7. ^Luong, QT Luong."Collecting Photography Books: A Primer".terragalleria.com.
  8. ^Gross, Liza (25 July 2012)."Picturing Biodiversity: Cultivating an Eye for Conservation".KQED Inc.San Francisco, California. Retrieved4 December 2022.
  9. ^Nichols, Lewis (8 December 1968)."Sierra Club Books".The New York Times.
  10. ^abc"Sierra Club Office of the Executive Director Records". 2002. Retrieved4 December 2022.
  11. ^Werris, Wendy (28 January 2013)."Obituary: Jon Beckmann, Former Sierra Club Books Publisher, Dead at 76". Retrieved4 November 2022.
  12. ^Beren, Peter."Peter Beren: Professional History". Retrieved4 November 2022.
  13. ^"Helen Sweetland, NCBS Board Member & Highway One Musician, Publisher Of Sierra Club Books".ncbs.info. 23 May 2021. Retrieved4 November 2022.
  14. ^abCarr, Cindy (27 May 2015)."Sierra Club Closes Book Publishing Program".Sierra Club.San Francisco. Retrieved4 December 2022.
  15. ^Newhall, Nancy, ed. (2021) [1st pub. 1960].Words of the Earth. Photographs byCedric Wright (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-1-01494-274-6 – viaGoogle Books.
  16. ^Hyde, Philip;Litton, Martin (1960).Brower, David (ed.).Time and the River Flowing: Grand Canyon.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  17. ^Adams, Ansel (1960).Brower, David (ed.).These We Inherit: The Parklands of America.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  18. ^Porter, Eliot (1963).Brower, David (ed.).The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  19. ^Newhall, Nancy (1963).Brower, David (ed.).Ansel Adams: A Biography, Volume 1: The Eloquent Light.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  20. ^Hyde, Philip; Leydet, Franćois (1964).Brower, David (ed.).The Last Redwoods: Photographs and Story of a Vanishing Scenic Resource.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  21. ^Muir, John (1964).Brower, David (ed.).Gentle Wilderness: The Sierra Nevada. Photographs byRichard Kauffman.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-106-0 – viaGoogle Books.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  22. ^Jeffers, Robinson (1965).Brower, David (ed.).Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-34525-539-6 – viaGoogle Books.
  23. ^Manning, Manning (1965).Brower, David (ed.).The Wild Cascades: Forgotten Parkland. Foreword byWilliam O. Douglas.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  24. ^Hornbein, Thomas F. (1998) [1st pub. 1965].Brower, David (ed.).Everest: The West Ridge.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Mountaineers.ISBN 978-0-89886-616-2 – viaGoogle Books.
  25. ^Porter, Eliot (1966).Brower, David (ed.).Summer Island: Penobscot Country.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  26. ^Bohn, Dave (1966).Brower, David (ed.).Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  27. ^Jett, Stephen (1969).Kenneth, David (ed.).Navajo Wildlands: As Long as The Rivers Shall Run. Photographs byPhilip Hyde.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  28. ^Wenkam, Robert (1969).Brower, Kenneth (ed.).Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  29. ^Krutch, Joseph Wood (1967).Brower, Kenneth (ed.).Baja California and the Geography of Hope. Photographs byEliot Porter.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  30. ^Johnston, Mireille (1968).Brower, David (ed.).Central Park Country: A Tune Within Us. Photographs by Nancy and Retta Johnson; Introduction byMarianne Moore.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  31. ^Porter, Eliot (1968).Brower, Kenneth (ed.).Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 1: Discovery. Introduction byLoren Eiseley, with selected text fromCharles Darwin andHerman Melville.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  32. ^Porter, Eliot (1968).Brower, Kenneth (ed.).Galápagos: The Flow of Wildness - Vol. 2: Prospect. Introduction byLoren Eiseley, with selected text fromCharles Darwin andHerman Melville.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books – viaGoogle Books.
  33. ^Brown, Tom (1971).Oil on Ice: Alaskan Wilderness at the Crossroads.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  34. ^Montague, Katherine; Montague, Peter (1971).Mercury: How Much Are We Eating?.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
  35. ^Wallace, David Rains (1984).Brower, David (ed.).The Wilder Shore. Photographs byMorley Baer, Foreword byWallace Stegner.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Yolla Bolly Press.ISBN 978-0-87156-328-6 – viaGoogle Books.
  36. ^Muir, John (2018) [1st pub. 1989].The Yosemite. photographs byGalen Rowell.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Yolla Bolly Press.ISBN 978-0-48683-488-7 – viaGoogle Books.
  37. ^Mann, Charles C. (1994).Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Material World. Photographs byPeter Menzel, Introduction byPaul Kennedy.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Catapult.ISBN 978-0-87156-430-6 – viaGoogle Books.
  38. ^Faith, D'Aluisio (1996). Brower (ed.).Women in the Material World. Material World. Photographs by Peter Menzel, foreword byNaomi Wolf.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-398-9 – viaGoogle Books.
  39. ^Russell, Terry; Russell, Renny (2001) [1st pub. 1967].On the Loose (2nd ed.).San Francisco:Gibbs Smith.ISBN 978-0-87905-995-8 – viaGoogle Books.
  40. ^Ehrlich, Paul R. (1971) [1968].The Population Bomb (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,Ballantine Books.ISBN 978-1-56849-587-3 – viaGoogle Books.
  41. ^Watkins, T.H. (1990) [1st pub. 1973].On the Shore of the Sundown Sea. Illustrated byEarl Thollander (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,American West Publishing.ISBN 978-0-80184-129-3 – viaGoogle Books.
  42. ^Starr, Walter Augustus (1974) [1st pub. 1934,Sierra Club].Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-172-5 – viaGoogle Books.
  43. ^Wendell, Berry (1996) [1st pub. 1977].The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-877-9 – viaGoogle Books.
  44. ^Worster, David (1985) [1st pub. 1977].Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-52126-792-2 – viaGoogle Books.
  45. ^Wallace, David Rains (1978).The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-212-8 – viaGoogle Books.
  46. ^Roper, Steve;Steck, Allen (1982) [1st pub. 1979].Fifty Classic Climbs of North America (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-262-3 – viaGoogle Books.
  47. ^Blum, Blum (1980).Annapurna: A Woman's Place.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-236-4 – viaGoogle Books.
  48. ^Wallace, David Rains (2003) [1st pub. 1983].The Klamath Knot: Explorations in Myth and Evolution (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-52023-659-2 – viaGoogle Books.
  49. ^Feininger, Andreas (1986).In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-763-5 – viaGoogle Books.
  50. ^Turner, Tom (1990).Wild by Law: The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved. Illustrated byCarr Clifton,Philip Hyde Et al.San Francisco: Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
  51. ^Steinhart, Peter (1990).California's Wild Heritage: Threatened and Endangered Animals in the Golden State. Introduction by Robert I. Bowman.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books in collaboration with theCalifornia Department of Fish and Game and theCalifornia Academy of Sciences.
  52. ^Mander, Jerry (1991) [1st pub.].In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-739-0 – viaGoogle Books.
  53. ^Boice, Judith (1992). Boice, Judith (ed.).Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers and Writers.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-556-3 – viaGoogle Books.
  54. ^Roszak, Theodore; Gomes, Mary E.; Kanner, Allen D. (1995).Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-0-87156-406-1 – viaGoogle Books.
  55. ^Wallace, David Rains (2007) [1st pub. 1997].The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Trinity University Press.ISBN 978-1-59534-040-5 – viaGoogle Books.
  56. ^Rowell, Galen; Sewell, Michael (1999) [1st pub. 1997].Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area (2nd ed.).San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-1-57805-010-9 – viaGoogle Books.
  57. ^Brower, Kenneth (2001).The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland. Sierra Club Books;Random House.ISBN 1-57805-058-8 – viaGoogle Books.
  58. ^Grundberg, Andy (2006).Galen Rowell: A Retrospective. foreword byTom Brokaw.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-1-57805-115-1 – viaGoogle Books.
  59. ^Johnson, Shelton (2009).Gloryland: A Novel.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.ISBN 978-1-57805-144-1 – viaGoogle Books.
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