My First Summer in the Sierra (Illustrated facsimile edition)
John Muir Reprint Series, January 2011. Trade Paperback. More
John Muir Reprint Series, January 2011. Trade Paperback. More
Milkweed Editions, November 2023. Hardcover. A Kirkus Reviews "Most Anticipated Book of the Fall 2023" From the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year and finding home. Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage..... More
Milkweed Editions, November 2023. Hardcover. An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of "two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive..... More
Macmillan, January 2006. Trade Paperback. More
William Morrow & Co, January 1966. Hardcover. In edgeworn jacket. Appears to be later printing. More
Mariner Books, October 1992. Trade Paperback. "A remarkable story beautifully told...Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."--Chicago Tribune Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane..... More
Tanager Books, April 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean, sound, with mildly worn jacket. More
Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1974. Reprint. Cloth. {4 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/2'} In tattered & torn DJ with large rough hewn chunk torn from top of front panel and top of spine and about one-half of rear panel. Much worn jacket edges. 5 inch tear snaking its way from..... More
Mariner Books, April 1997. Paper Back. On an April day in 1953, renowned American ornithologist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained-the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched..... More
Harvard University Press, September 2015. Hardcover. Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop..... More
Penguin Books, June 2022. Paper Back. The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist's quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. "A fascinating and deeply personal journey." --Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken Botanist Traveling by canoe, ATV..... More
Reaktion Books, January 2024. Paper Back. A richly illustrated cultural and natural history of the lethargic animal--from prehistoric ancestry to modern-day memes. Sloths are perhaps the most recognized and loved Central and South American animals, but they are not well understood. This book offers a colorful and wide-ranging biological and..... More
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1936. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 9'} Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering somewhat faded along spine and front panel. Tanned end papers. Previous owner's name upper right corner at very top written in ink. Edgeworn boards especially heavily at base & head of spine..... More
Henry Holt and Co., April 2020. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different.--The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close..... More
Duke University Press Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of..... More
Random House, September 1981. Hardcover. More
University of Chicago Press, April 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding, spine moderately worn from use; Clean, sturdy yellow cloth boards, moderately worn w/ mild scuffing/damp-staining present; Pages free of markings; An excellent reading/research copy, w/o jacket. More
University Of Chicago Press, November 1994. Paper Back. Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller..... More
Hill & Wang Pub, December 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, March 2009. Trade Paperback. "A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals--and, ultimately, at ourselves." -- Chicago Tribune Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard..... More
University Press of Florida, August 1992. Trade Paperback. A Naturalist in Costa Rica picks up Alexander F. Skutch's story in 1935, the year his memoir The Imperative Call ends. In it he recoreds his life, work, observations, and reflections during thirty-five years in the southeastern Pacific section of Costa Rica..... More
Dover Publications, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of..... More
Levenger Press. First Edition. Cloth. {10' x 9'} Oblong green cloth covered boards with gold lettering and illustrated color forest affixed to front board. Tightly bound. Silk ribbon marker. Non-authorial inscription inked in blue on front fee end page. [239 pages]. More
Peter Pauper, Undated (1960s). Hardcover. Decorative boards with cloth back in white dust jacket. Top edge of text block stained black. Woodcut illustrations by Aldren Watson. Bottom edge of boards rubbed. Jacket has very minor spotting and toning. More