Nature Writing & Essays

Called The Work Of A Mesmerizing Storyteller With Deep Compassion And Memorable Prose (publishers Weekly) And The Book That, Anyone Interested In Natural Hi...

Incandescent poems about living and aging―about being awake in this young century―by one of our most moving and eloquent poets. These poems chart the j...

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...

The compelling story of one family’s life among the rugged landscapes of the Coast Mountains, converting youthful ideals, raw land and a passion for the ...

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...

Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man. Anthropologi...

The Spellbinding Story Of Chris Mccandless, Who Gave Away His Savings, Hitchhiked To Alaska, Walked Into The Wilderness Alone, And Starved To Death In 1992,...

By Sy Montgomery ; Illustrated By Rebecca Green.Categories: Travel ReferenceGeneral

For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredi...

The Danes have hygge. The Swedes have lagom. Now, Laura Weir, a beloved lifestyle journalist and editor-in-chief of London Evening Standard’s weekly ES m...

By Amy Stewart. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [207]-208) And Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences ZoologyInvertebrates

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...

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. •...

from The Bestselling Author Of Earthway Comes A Collection Of Thoughtful And Inspiring Essays On Nature And Life. Together They Light A Path To Genuine Lov...

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...

Farley Mowat.Categories: Science & Math Nature & EcologyNature Writing & Essays

An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 A Country Living Best Book of Fall 2021 From the author of the bestselling #ReadWithJenna/TODAY Show book club ...

In A Countryman's Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard an...

The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a ...