Essays
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Vesper Flights
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural
- Author: MacDonald, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0802128815
- Language: English
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
$22.99 Add to cartIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sour
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338754
- Language: English
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Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
$19.95 Add to cartMoral Ground brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries — theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers — to present… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 1595340858
- Language: English
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Things That Are: Essays
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting A
- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1571313516
- Language: English
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The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
$24.95 Read moreIn this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a la… [more below]
- Author: Meloy, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0816521530
- Language: English
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A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature
$26.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.
As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is o- Author: Ekelund, Torbj?rn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1771645121
- Language: English
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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature
$16.00 Add to cartA quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide
In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood reveals his abiding affection for the overlooked an- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145459
- Language: English
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Wildwood
$24.99 Add to cartHere, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin’s glorious meditation on woo… [more below]
- Author: Deakin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1416595325
- Language: English
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The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery
$22.95 Add to cartIn this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier–a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, … [more below]
- Author: Ekelund, Torbjorn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1771645091
- Language: English
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A Place in the Woods
$16.95 Read moreHelen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream o… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
- Author: Hoover, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0816631298
- Language: English
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Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartJust below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America’s most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventu… [more below]
- Series: Chapel Hill Books
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847526
- Language: English
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
$18.99 Add to cartWhen her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself t
- Author: Hubbell, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395967015
- Language: English
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In Suspect Terrain
$19.00 Read moreFrom the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the
- Series: Annals of the Former World #2
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 374517940
- Language: English
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums
$18.00 Add to cartIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach’s The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world
Humans, please turn your gu- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858852
- Language: English
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The Grand Teton Reader
$19.95 Read moreGrand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park’s natural … [more below]
- Series: National Park Readers
- Author: Righter, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690331
- Language: English
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Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range
$22.99 Add to cartJack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear and friends. Later in life, he led treks in I
- Author: Turner, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284462
- Language: English
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The Night Country
$24.95 Add to cartToward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom a… [more below]
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803267355
- Language: English
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Suburban Wild
$26.95 Add to cartSet in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, amid traffic, pollution, and ever-increasing neighborhoods of houses and apartments, these meditative personal essays explore the importance of our connectio
- Author: Friederici, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820357170
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Add to cartIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
$24.95 Add to cartReconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose. In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest w
- Author: Woolington, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1947845365
- Language: English
