Essays
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Reflections from the North Country
$15.95 Read moreWritten in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson’s most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson … [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback)
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0816629935
- Language: English
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Mind of the Raven
$15.99 Read moreIn Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award – winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.Much like a sleut… [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062164376
- Language: English
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Something in the Woods Loves You
$30.00 Add to cartAn inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health
Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his li- Author: Anderson, Jarod K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1643262297
- Language: English
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
$30.00 Read moreThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars
“Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0300104669
- Language: English
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Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work
$26.95 Add to cartAn abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as “going to seed.”
But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sendi
- Series: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize
- Author: Neville, Kate J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832031
- Language: English
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Elementals: 5-Volume Set
$125.00 Add to cart“This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. . . This is not just ‘nature writing.’ This is cosmic writing.”–Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration
For readers o
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 823
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986289625
- Language: English
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This Is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature
$19.95 Read moreNature isn’t only in a park or wilderness. It’s right outside our door. Sometimes it’s on the door or comes inside to find us. Nature is the jumping spider on the screen, the assassin bug in the showe
- Author: Brichetto, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1595342990
- Language: English
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Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World
$21.99 Add to cartPart nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, … [more below]
- Author: Yuen, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000152
- Language: English
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Thin Places
$25.00 Read moreAn Indie Next Selection for April 2022
An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experien
- Author: Ní Dochartaigh, Kerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311955
- Language: English
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
$14.95 Add to cart“We want to live as if there is no other place,” Hogan tells us, “as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life.” In offering praise to sk… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393322475
- Language: English
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A Countryman’s Journal: Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm
$18.95 Read moreIn A Countryman’s Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard animals, a library full of his favorite liter… [more below]
- Author: Barrette, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143446
- Language: English
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Land of Women
$18.95 Add to cartA bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural life
- Author: Sánchez, MarÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349634
- Language: English
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Accidental Gardens
$22.99 Add to cartThere is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Ga
- Author: Carney, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1925856291
- Language: English
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The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
$19.95 Add to cartA nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.
When I lived in London I barely noticed- Author: Harrison, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0571363504
- Language: English
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Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days
$24.95 Add to cartOn the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all k
- Series: New York State
- Author: Shengold, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0815611242
- Language: English
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The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World
$18.00 Add to cartCan the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit,
- Series: World as Home
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1571312811
- Language: English
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
$19.95 Add to cartLooking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. From overwinte… [more below]
- Author: Ray, Janisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349871
- Language: English
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Small Bodies of Water
$18.00 Read more‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane
Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied fr
‘Gorgeous’ Amy Liptrot
‘Urgent and nourishing’ Jessica J. Lee- Author: Powles, Nina Mingya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838852182
- Language: English
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Our Only World: Ten Essays
$16.95 Read more“Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rura… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1619027003
- Language: English
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
$17.95 Add to cartExtraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.
A Mail on Sunday “Critic’s Pick” Be
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1603587551
- Language: English
