Gibbs Smith Publishers, April 2011. Hardcover. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his..... More
The MIT Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. The news about wildlife is dire--more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there..... More
Barnes & Noble Books, January 2004. Cloth. More
Modern Library, July 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!," for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their..... More
Iris Books (Oxford University Press), 1945. First Thus. Oversized Hardcover. First English Edition; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Clean, sturdy cloth covered boards; Mild foxing present at paste-downs/end-pages; Text/Colour Plates free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket mildly worn, now housed in protective mylar for further preservation; An excellent copy..... More
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, January 1982. Hardcover. During his brief, energetic life (1817-62), and long before backpacking became popular, Henry David Thoreau climbed a number of New England mountains -- at the time remote wilderness areas where only Indians and a few pioneering botanists regularly traveled.Walking with Thoreau gives Henry David..... More
Mudlark, January 2023. Hardcover. From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks... We have a perennial fascination with..... More
Mudlark, January 2023. Hardcover. From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks... We have a perennial fascination with..... More
Dover Pubns, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Bloomsbury USA, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Forty years after her mother's work changed the way we eat, Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet changed the way we think about food production and global warming. Fifty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in..... More
Twelve, December 2022. Hardcover. An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver--the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history..... 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
Macmillan, January 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Peter Pauper Press, January 1960. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Mild foxing present at outer edge text block as well as end-pages/paste-downs; Previous owner initials present at front free end-page; Text free of markings; Dust jacket shows mild wear with slight fraying at edges and spine. 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
Ernest P.Edward, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. 2ND Edition {6' x 9'} In well edgeworn dustjacket with tears and front flap clipped. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tight binding [282 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin Co., January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo. in chipped, torn and tattered jacket. Flap not clipped. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering & illustration on front panel and along spine. Maps of Mexico on front and back end pages. [298 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1947. Cloth. 12mo. Without dustjacket. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering & illustration on spine and front panel. Boards bowed. Corners bent & bumped. Roadside silhouettes on front end pages. Flight silhouettes on rear end pages. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. [230 pages]. More
Livingston Publishing, January 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. Turquoise cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold illustration and lettering. Cloth heavily worn along board edges, especially bottom. Name and address scrawled in ballpoint ffep. Tanning of margins and gutter to end pages front and rear. Marginal ink notations on a few pages..... More
Seven Stories Press, April 2009. Trade Paperback. What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author..... More
Seven Stories, June 2006. Trade Paperback. The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this..... More
Seven Stories Press, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on..... More
Bloomsbury USA, December 2006. Paper Back. Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006..... More
University Of Chicago Press,, Chicago:, January 1963. Reprint. Cloth. {5' x 7&3/4'} In edgeworn jacket with tears. Rubbing. 6th printing. Jade cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and gold illustrated bird on front panel. Map of mexico (with indications of vegetation & climate) on front end pages. Tradition..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian..... More
