Essays
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Summer Solstice: An Essay
$14.95 Add to cartSummer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon — but they’re captured here, in loving se
- Author: Maclaughlin, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 27 2020
- ISBN10: 157423238X
- Language: English
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The Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple
$11.95 Add to cartThis pocket-size book pairs 60 insightful John Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts.
- Series: Meditations (Wilderness)
- Author: Highland, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0899972853
- Language: English
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Otters Dance: A Rancher’s Journey to Enlightenment and Stewardship
$18.95 Read more“Otters Dance is a treatise on ranching, conservation, wildlife, family, and most of all a unique appreciation of our home state of Wyoming…This is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to unde… [more below]
- Author: Budd, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1682753409
- Language: English
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
$16.99 Add to cart“A collection of meditations like polished stones — painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world.” — K
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915412
- Language: English
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Coming Into the Country
$22.00 Add to cartComing into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522871
- Language: English
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
$19.00 Add to cartA beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence
“[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity’s destructive impulse, an- Author: Flyn, Cal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1984878212
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$13.00 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts–part social experiment, part spiritual quest–is an enduringly influential American classic.
I- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 804171564
- Language: English
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Nature and Other Essays
$16.99 Add to cartA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “Love,” and “Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature” declared that understanding
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 142365269X
- Language: English
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The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog
$12.95 Add to cartRenowned playwright Eugene O’Neill composed this work in 1940 to comfort his wife about the death of their Dalmatian, Blemie. Better known for his despairing and pessimistic dramas, O’Neill’s touching… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: O’Neill, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1429096071
- Language: English
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Song of the Open Road
$12.95 Read moreWalt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” from his seminal work Leaves of Grass, is a celebration of freedom and the joy of journeying. In Whitman’s classic poem, the road becomes a metaphor for life’s
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1429096381
- Language: English
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In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature
$17.95 Add to cart“What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one’s way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest… A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.… [more below]
- Author: Ekelund, Torbjørn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 177164995X
- Language: English
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The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
$18.99 Add to cartFirst published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson’s award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature.
In 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rach
- Author: Carson, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062655353
- Language: English
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The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
$24.00 Add to cartFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, “multiracial” to “mixedblood,” the diversity of cultures in today’s world is reflected in our richly various stories–stories of creat
- Author: Deming, Alison Hawthorne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1571313192
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$16.99 Add to cartJohn Muir’s beloved adventure in the Sierra reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.
Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1423649125
- Language: English
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182)
$49.95 Add to cartAs America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the bes… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #182
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598530208
- Language: English
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Landmarks
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland–a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place
For years now, the British wr- Series: Landscapes #4
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0241967872
- Language: English
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Dear Park Ranger: Essays on Manhood, Restlessness, and the Geography of Hope
$18.95 Add to cart“Throughout my life,” writes Jeff Darren Muse, “manhood has been a kind of topographic map. Yet it’s peer pressure or social norms telling me which route to follow: Smile, Jeff, have a beer. Make babi
- Author: Muse, Jeff Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368523
- Language: English
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
$18.95 Add to cartWoodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the t… [more below]
- Author: Legler, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349596
- Language: English
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
$18.00 Add to cartIn the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bi… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679740244
- Language: English
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Never Cry Wolf
$18.99 Add to cartBy enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316881791
- Language: English
