Modern Library, January 1950. Hardcover. Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Sturdy cloth boards mildly edge-worn w/ damp-staining present at edges and spine; Outer edge text-block mildly foxed; Previous owner name and date present at front free end-page; Text free of markings; A great reading copy w/o jacket. More
Sierra Club Books, March 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-uncreased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Timber Press, February 2020. Hardcover. "Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!" --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of..... More
Timber Press, Incorporated, September 2000. Hardcover. Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Writing for the lay reader, the author surveys..... More
National Geographic Society, April 1999. Hardcover. Aids in the identification of all species known to breed in North America, describing their appearance, behavior, natural habitat, and rarity. A bestseller with more than a quarter million copies sold, this completely revised and updated edition is still one of the most authoritative..... More
Knopf, October 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ gilt lettering at spine; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket mildly worn, now housed in protective mylar to ensure futher preservation; An excellent copy. More
University of Georgia Press, September 1990. Paper Back. Based on the photographs and writings of Francis Harper, a naturalist who visited the Okefinokee Swamp repeatedly between 1912 and 1951, Okefinokee Album recalls life in the "land of trembling earth" before the outside world encroached in the 1940s. Filled with profiles..... More
Dover Publications, 1962. Cloth. Folio. Two volume set. In dustjackets with mild wear. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed in black rectangles with gold borderlines along spines of both volumes. Moderate wear board edges, espcially along bottom edge. Text block top edges tinted a fading green with dust..... More
Princeton University Press, August 2022. Hardcover. From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have..... 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
Storey Publishing, LLC, February 2023. Paper Back. Best-selling gardening author Barbara Pleasant makes organic vegetable gardening easy, fun, and rewarding with detailed planting and care designs for 24 beginner-friendly gardens to fit any site, whether it's a tiny side yard, a border, a trellis alongside the house, or a front..... More
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
Penguin Books, November 2019. Mass Market PaperBack. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates. --Barack Obama The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation..... 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
Houghton Mifflin, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and..... 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
Timber Press, February 2023. Paper Back. Science, nature, and adventure come together in this riveting account of a solo bike trip along the migratory path of the monarch butterfly. Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration--a round-trip..... More
Grand Central Publishing, September 2022. Hardcover. What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty-ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak--asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. A New Yorker Best Book of..... 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
TarcherPerigee, October 2022. Hardcover. A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the spectacular birds all around them. Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann..... More
