Penguin Books, May 2003. Trade Paperback. One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874. The Exploration..... More
Holt McDougal, January 2020. Paper Back. Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of..... 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
Greystone Books, April 2022. Paper Back. Awaken your senses and learn how to be a forest detective--with Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. "This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees."--Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the..... More
Greystone Books, April 2022. Paper Back. Awaken your senses and learn how to be a forest detective--with Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. "This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees."--Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of..... More
Little Brown and Company, March 1989. Trade Paperback. With these handy paperback reference guides, illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings, nature watchers know what to look for and how to interpret what they see. Whether carried into the field or consulted at home, these books provide readers with fascinating facts..... More
Vintage, June 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2022. Hardcover. An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later..... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, June 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, October 2004. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling..... More
Island Press, May 2022. Hardcover. "Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures..... More
Little Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during..... More
Penguin Books, June 2022. Paper Back. A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and health-improving medicines..... More
Collins / St Jame's Place, 1972. Reprint. Cloth. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} In edgeworn dustjacket. Brick color cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's name, address and 'please return to' request inked on front pastedown. Spine is slightly leaning. 4th printing. Also inked list of African..... More
Tokyo News Service, January 1974. Reprint. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'} In dustjacket. Sacramento green cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering. Previous owner's name & address inked front free end page. 2nd printing. Tightly bound. Dark stains textblock edges. [266 pages]. More
Simon & Schuster, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Hailed by The New York Times as "a passionately felt, deeply poetic book," the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southwestern wilderness.Desert Solitaire is a collection of vignettes about life in..... More
Stackpole Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Accounts by thru-hikers, organized by topic. Foreword by hiker Maurice Forrester and stunning color photos by Mike Warren. As is. Slight bend in the print block. More
Rainbow Books, December 1995. Trade Paperback. Well-organized advice on all important aspects from hiker who regrets what he didn't know when he first stepped out at Springer. Highly recommended by many A.T. clubs. More
Greystone Books, June 2022. Paper Back. In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer - "A wonderful memoir ... hands down the most charming book I read last year."--Margaret Renkl, The New York Times "How to Catch a...... More
New York Review of Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons..... More
Collins, January 1973. Hardcover. Previous owner's name/address inked on front free endpaper; inked notes on rear endpaper. More
Nan A. Talese, October 2005. Hardcover. In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds. Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning..... More
HarperOne, May 2022. Hardcover. In this transformative guide, TikTok's most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater--aka Garden Marcus--offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul. Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his soothing TikTok videos that relate botany..... More
