Books by William Ashworth

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OGALLALA BLUE: WATER AND LIFE ON THE HIGH PLAINS. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006

GREAT LAKES JOURNEY: A NEW LOOK AT AMERICA'S FRESHWATER COAST. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2000

THE LEFT HAND OF EDEN. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 1999. [winner of the 1999 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction.]

THE WALLOWAS: COMING OF AGE IN THE WILDERNESS (20th Anniversary Edition). Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 1999 [see also below].

THE ECONOMY OF NATURE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

PENGUINS, PUFFINS AND AUKS: THEIR LIFE AND BEHAVIOR (with photographer Art Wolfe). New York: Crown, 1993.

BEARS: THEIR LIFE AND BEHAVIOR (with photographer Art Wolfe). New York: Crown, 1992.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. New York: Facts on File, 1991.

THE LATE, GREAT LAKES: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY. New York: Knopf, 1986. [Nature Book Society alternate selection: cited by the Colonial Dames of America as one of three "notable" books of the year. Paperback edition published by Wayne State University Press, 1987.]

NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK: THE AMERICAN WATER CRISIS. New York: Summit Books, 1982.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE: CONGRESS, THE LOBBIES, AND THE AMERICAN PORK BARREL SYSTEM. New York: Hawthorn/Dutton, 1981.

THE CARSON FACTOR. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1979.

THE WALLOWAS: COMING OF AGE IN THE WILDERNESS. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1978.

HELLS CANYON: THE DEEPEST GORGE ON EARTH. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1977.