Essays
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$5.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.
In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532163
- Language: English
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
A Washington Post bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub
A Book Riot “Favorite Summer Read of 2020”
A Food Tank … [more below]- Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1571313567
- Language: English
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A Year in the Maine Woods
$18.99 Add to cartEscapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place–a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains…. [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 1995
- ISBN10: 0201489392
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire
$22.00 Add to cartHailed 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 southw
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15, 1990
- ISBN10: 0671695886
- Language: English
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Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
$22.99 Add to cartThe Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs–a legacy of government regulation over Ind
- Series: In Place
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1959000705
- Language: English
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
$21.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her person… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 29 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752560
- Language: English
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Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
$21.95 Add to cartIn Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Kathleen Dean Moore explores the intricate connections between human emotions and the natural world. Through lyrical prose and vivid imagery, Moore reflects on t… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1590307712
- Language: English
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Crossing Open Ground
$17.00 Add to cartIn Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment.
Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discus- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721835
- Language: English
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Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
$18.00 Add to cartIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez–the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers–evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationshi… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400075122
- Language: English
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In Trees: An Exploration
$30.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails comes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia… [more below]
- Author: Moor, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1476739250
- Language: English
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Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf
$16.99 Add to cartFarley Mowat’s youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0395735289
- Language: English
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Touched / Tocado: Revelations at San Ignacio Lagoon: Spirit, Science, People, Politics
$25.00 Add to cartLaguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, comes alive in the essays within Touched/Tocado. Michael Branch writes the essays are “ingeniously organized as a four-stranded narrative which deftly
- Author: Nevle, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1955140049
- Language: English
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
$21.99 Add to cartTHE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life’s tenacity on the coldest of Earth’s continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who desp
- Author: Campbell, David G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0618219218
- Language: English
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Making Game: An Essay on Woodcock
$19.95 Add to cartMaking Game is an edgy, elegant examination of the habits and history of a reclusive gamebird native to Europe and North America, the woodcock.
- Author: de la Valdène, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089285
- Language: English
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Illumination in the Flatwoods
$19.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable story about the fascinating behavior of the most elusive of wild game birds.
When Joe Hutto began his experiment in imprinting two dozen wild turkey–in the tradition of the great ani- Author: Hutto, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493036963
- Language: English
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Held: Essays in Belonging
$18.95 Add to cartFrom award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.
Here is a collection about living in- Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 195604647X
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Read more“What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is–an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and se… [more below]
- Author: Magan, Manchán
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1645023761
- Language: English
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Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
$29.95 Add to cartA beautiful companion volume to the hugely popular The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady–a trove of exquisite paintings and notes from the same author that have been unpublished and unseen for decad… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0789344289
- Language: English
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African Silences
$22.00 Add to cartAfrican Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain o… [more below]
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679731024
- Language: English
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Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World
$27.95 Read moreWhen is a weed not a weed? When is a bug not a pest? Science writer Caroline Sutton reveals the secrets of the natural world in this “astonishing” collection of essays.
With this fascinating and eye-o- Author: Sutton, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639640819
- Language: English
