Essays
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Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals
$24.95 Read more“Peterson’s writing style and her intimately told stories about how animals and people can jointly navigate the planet have the ability to draw readers in and leave them with hope about the future of … [more below]
- Author: Peterson, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680516647
- Language: English
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The Green Halo: A Bird’s-Eye View of Ecological Ethics
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations between humans and the rest of the natural world. The author looks at the views of thinkers including… [more below]
- Author: Kohak, Erazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0812694112
- Language: English
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A Very Small Farm
$16.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, put… [more below]
- Author: Winchester, William Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0806137789
- Language: English
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska’s Denali National Park
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling memoir about Kim Heacox’s more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska
- Author: Heacox, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493049585
- Language: English
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Wild Like Flowers: The Restoration of Relationship Through Regeneration
$20.35 Add to cartA 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Nature/Environmentalism
This is a book about Regenerative Agriculture gone wild.
This book of short stories and essays is a wondrous meditation on sunrises and
- Author: Griffith, Daniel Firth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1735492256
- Language: English
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Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmenta
- Author: Simpson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497837
- Language: English
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High Vistas:: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, Volume II, 1900-2009
$21.99 Add to cartHigh Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky M… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Ellison, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 18 2011
- ISBN10: 159629356X
- Language: English
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The Wild Out Your Window
$15.95 Add to cartWhat could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montg… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0892725753
- Language: English
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The Book of Yaak
$16.99 Add to cartThe Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, mar
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0395877466
- Language: English
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Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
$17.00 Add to cartA classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
National Book Award-wi- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140265139
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau rec
- Series: Mint Editions (the Natural World)
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221108
- Language: English
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Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us about Slowing Down and Living Well
$21.00 Add to cartAn invitation to explore the life-giving lessons we can learn from the Earth, featuring stunning photography and reflections from an acclaimed visual artist
The Earth is the first tangible gift we wer- Author: Proctor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593581792
- Language: English
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Out Into The Beautiful World
$19.99 Add to cartWhen I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics b… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1943003025
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$24.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- Language: English
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Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
$17.99 Add to cartFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language–beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout’s odyssey from no… [more below]
- Series: Living Planet Book
- Author: Fouts, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380728222
- Language: English
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The River of the Mother of God: And Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
$29.95 Add to cartHis name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist’s bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold’s ess
- Author: Leopold, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0299127648
- Language: English
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A Wind-Storm in the Forests
$9.95 Add to cartThe nature writings of pioneering environmentalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir are like no other. In this essay from 1894, Muir describes the grandeur of the winds at play in the forests, with s… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1429096144
- Language: English
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
$26.99 Add to cart“Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire‘s literary heir . . . It’s hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one.”–Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review
Trespass is the
- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0865477450
- Language: English
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Blue Desert
$19.95 Add to cartIn the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Des… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0816510814
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
