The Forbes-Miller Field Library

Our shelves are not arranged to impress. They hold books that sharpen observation, deepen respect for place, and keep an expedition alive long after everyone comes home.

These are the volumes we return to before departure, carry into camp, and reach for when the road begins calling again.

Expeditionary Canon

South — Ernest Shackleton

Arabian Sands — Wilfred Thesiger

The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen

Field & Sporting Life

A River Runs Through It — Norman Maclean

The Old Man and the Boy — Robert Ruark

A Sand County Almanac — Aldo Leopold

Places Ahead

Martín Fierro — José Hernández

In Patagonia — Bruce Chatwin

The Lost City of the Incas — Hiram Bingham

Photography & Observation

On Photography — Susan Sontag

The Photographer’s Eye — John Szarkowski