Nature Writing & Essays

Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future ...

One of Americas greatest landscape designers and conservationists, Jensen used native plants to introduce the influential Prairie style of landscape archi...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

Poignant And Vulnerable Essays That Weave Together Seemingly Disparate Themes Of Wild Places And Mountain Stewardship, Books And Reading, And Building A New...

part Odyssey, Part Pilgrimage, This Epic Personal Narrative Follows The Author's Exploration Of Coasts, Islands, Reefs, And The Sea's Abyssal Depths. Scie...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chr...

Wolf Considers The Future Of The Reading Brain And Our Capacity For Critical Thinking, Empathy And Reflection As We Become Increasingly Dependent Upon Digit...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

From The National Book Award-winning Author Of Arctic Dreams And Of Wolves And Men, An Epic, Revelatory Work That Recollects The Travels Around The World An...

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Hidden Life Of Trees, An Eye-opening Exploration Of The Extraordinary Range Of Emotions Animals Experience...

In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision f...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Living with Wild Bears in Alaska"A heart-stopping eco-adventure, a testimony to both the grizzlies and their courageous protector."--People"The grizzly bear...

Emma Mitchell Has Suffered With Depression For 25 Years. In 2003, She Left The City And Began To Take Walks In The Countryside Around Her New Home, Photogra...

Since 1980, Jungian psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding men and women into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the ...

with Its Unique Combination Of Depth, Clarity, And Humor That Has Enchanted Millions, This Beloved Classic By Bestselling Author Gary Zukav Opens The Fasci...

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her...

This Book Is An Account Of The History, Ecology, And Mystique Of The Arctic Region. The Author Offers A Thorough Examination Of This Obscure World, Its Terr...

You'll enjoy every page of this heartwarming and stunningly beautiful book. It's the inspiring story of an inspired Canadian. It's also a collection of some...

The Story Of A Man, Elzeard Bouffier, Who Planted Trees On Land Which Was Dying Because Of A Lack Of Vegetation__ Jean Giono ; Translated By Barbara Bray ; ...

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's Role In Launching Modern Conservationsim, Identifying The Contributions Of Such Influences As James Audubon And John Muir Whi...

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in ...

A Testament To The Miraculous Beings That Share Our Planet, The Wild In You Is A Creative Collaboration Between A Lauded Nature Photographer And An Internat...

Few Books Have Had A Greater Impact Than A Sand County Almanac, Which Many Credit With Launching A Revolution In Land Management. Written As A Series Of Ske...

The Definitive Story Of Hollywood's Most Famous Couple He Was A Tough-guy Welshman Softened By The Affections Of A Breathtakingly Beautiful Woman;...

Poetry. Harrison doesn't write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling to form the poem - or, we should s...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel Amer...

the Beloved Author Of refuge, Terry Tempest Williams Is One Of The Country’s Most Eloquent And Imaginative Writers. The Desert Is Her Blood. In This Poten...

A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that is at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing. KLIATT David Rothenberg is a...

Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with the death of a beloved sister, her children’s departure for college, and her own recent...

Fungi are unlike any other living thing—they almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world. . .\Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes ...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars. Thoreau’s literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experime...

a Place Between The Tides Is An Evocative Mix Of Scientific Observation And Personal Memories That Captures The Tremendous Vitality And Vulnerability Of M...

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bi...

When Ben Hewitt And His Wife Bought A Sprawling Acreage Of Field And Forest In Northern Vermont, The Landscape Easily Allowed Them To Envision The Self-sust...

The Author Describes Her Mormon Upbringing, Juxtaposing These Reminiscences With Discussions Of The Flooding Of A Wildlife Bird Sanctuary And Its Effect On ...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of the United States and legends of the sport, as well as relatives, childhood friends, and his two sons...

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose...

Walden in a box: Contents of writings of Henry David Thoreau: (1) Walden or Life in the Woods, (2), Economy, (3) Where I lived and What I lived For, (4) Re...

In his own words, David James Duncan was "struck by a boyhood suspicion that rivers and mountains are myself turned inside out. I'd heard at church that the...

"Making Hay takes one of the least common denominators in rural American life and gives it real glory. Klinkenborg is funny, learned, elegant, and accurate ...

The gripping first-person account of one woman's survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds. "A vibrantly physical book"--The Guardian * "Up...

As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions...

as Meaningful Today As It Was When Sigurd F. Olson Wrote It, the Singing Wilderness Is An Essential Antidote To The Trials Of Modern Life. This Unique Volu...

In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone w...