Tin House Books, April 2023. First American. Hardcover. Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with..... More
Houghton Mifflin, August 2003. Hardcover. The naturalist-author of Stirring the Mud offers an illuminating study of the natural history and spiritual quality of caves, describing the intriguing interiors of caves around the world, their unusual inhabitants, the fascination caves hold for fellow cavers, and other aspects of these dark and..... 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
Storey Publishing, LLC, October 2021. Paper Back. With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question "Can I eat it?", most of the..... More
Little, Brown and Company, December 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award One of TIME's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - A PEOPLE Best New Book - A Barnes & Noble and SHELF AWARENESS Best..... More
University of Alabama Press, January 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no subsequent printings stated; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, gently edge-worn; Pages free of markings; Clipped dust jacket moderately edge-worn w/ significant chipping at spine, mild foxing present; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation..... More
American Fisheries Society, February 1994. Cloth. Quarto -- Eight & 3/4-inch x Eleven & 1/4-inch; In edgeworn dustjacket, slightly rubbed. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine & front board. Complete number string. (1079 pages). 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
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
Indiana University Press, December 1984. Cloth. Dusty, soiled cloth with gold lettering. Soiling to end pages. Clean text. Edgeworn jacket with soiling, especially to verso. Quarto. Clean text. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1992. Hardcover. A passionate defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore described in this now classic best-selling book how the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe, threatening the destruction of nature and ultimately ourselves. Its groundbreaking analysis placed the environment..... More
Univ of South Carolina Pr, January 1970. Hardcover. Cloth covers spotted; jacket sunned and chipped. More
National Geographic, April 2023. Hardcover. Companion to the National Geographic television series, this book reveals the remarkable intelligence, family loyalty, unique personalities, and fascinating behaviors of elephants. As big as a bus, weighing up to 11 tons, elephants have fascinated us for centuries, but only recently have scientists been able..... More
Scribner, March 2023. Hardcover. The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite--from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival. In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir--iconic environmentalist, writer, and..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, March 2006. Hardcover. An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming..... 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 Arizona Press, April 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. There is a date written in blue ballpoint on ffep, near top. [270 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
Yale University Press, November 1990. Cloth. Madagascar, isolated for at least 120 million years and the fourth largest island in the world, is home to a remarkable variety of endemic animals and plants. This book is a guide to the unusual bird life of Madagascar. 40 watercolour illustrations provide clear..... More
Milkweed Editions, June 2017. Trade Paperback. In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored." From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges..... 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
Morgan James Publishing, April 2018. Trade Paperback. With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dreams, where is hope? There is a quiet experiment in Milwaukee that is turning heads. It starts with..... More
Thames & Hudson, September 2022. Hardcover. The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, bread, detergent, and penicillin. Today, in the face..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2007. Trade Paperback. To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace."..... More
