Essays
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Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
$18.95 Add to cart2023 Southwest Books of the Year winner, 2023 Reading the West Nonfiction Award winner, Foreword INDIES Silver Award winner, and Colorado Book Award finalist
“Childs guides readers through a long lived
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1948814579
- Language: English
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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
$32.00 Add to cartTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICK
From the beloved New… [more below]
- Author: Renkl, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1954118465
- Language: English
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intelle- Author: Abram, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776397
- Language: English
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartIn this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise–the color and the gem–to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.
From t- Author: Meloy, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375708138
- Language: English
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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
$19.99 Add to cartDeserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers.
Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water rev- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0316610690
- Language: English
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Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails
$24.95 Read moreA lively, thought-provoking collection of essays and poems that represent diverse perspectives on national parks and trails. — Kristen Rabe ― Foreword Reviews
- Features stories from Grand Canyo
- Author: Kyu, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680515500
- Language: English
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The Naturalist’s Notebook: An Observation Guide and 5-Year Calendar-Journal for Tracking Changes in the Natural World Around You
$27.00 Add to cartBecome a more attentive observer and deepen your appreciation for the natural world. The unique five-year calendar format of The Naturalist’s Notebook helps you create a long-term record and point of … [more below]
- Author: Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1612128890
- Language: English
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Think Little: Essays
$10.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet h
- Series: Counterpoints
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1640091734
- Language: English
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Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
$19.99 Add to cart“Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0063009331
- Language: English
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Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons
$24.95 Add to cartNorthern Michigan is a place, like all places, in change. Over the past half century, its landscape has been bulldozed, subdivided, and built upon. Climate change warms the water of the Great Lakes at… [more below]
- Author: Dennis, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0472132970
- Language: English
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Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award
Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming- Author: Fromm, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422725
- Language: English
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Thin Places
$18.00 Add to cartAn Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022
Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of “two strands
- Author: NÃ Dochartaigh, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550623
- Language: English
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The Solace of Open Spaces
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” –Annie Dillard Poet and filmm- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 1986
- ISBN10: 0140081135
- Language: English
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
$18.99 Add to cartThe seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)
A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod b- Author: Beston, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 080507368X
- Language: English
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My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light,
$16.95 Read moreIn this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed author David James Duncan braids his contemplative, rhapsodic, and activist voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power an… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, David James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1578050839
- Language: English
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The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
$28.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed author David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature and explores the challenge of balancing the needs of both.
For more than t- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1426222076
- Language: English
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Conservation Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3): Large (Notebook with Lined Pages)
$14.99 Read moreEmbrace the spirit of conservation with this beautiful notebook collection.
Drawing inspiration from the wisdom of leading conservationist and environmentalist Greta Thunberg, Jane Goodall, and Wangar- Author: Insight Editions
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 1647222230
- Language: English
