Essays
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’Odham Country
$21.95 Add to cartPublished more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Deser… [more below]
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816546894
- Language: English
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher’s Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful story of one angler’s adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery of a people livin… [more below]
- Series: Pruett
- Author: Middleton, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0871088924
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
$19.95 Add to cartNature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 185
- Series: New York State
- Author: Cooper, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0815603177
- Language: English
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The Nature of Desert Nature
$19.95 Read moreIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0816540284
- Language: English
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Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
$19.95 Add to cartIn essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick’s Compass Lines explores the paths we take toward belonging. Here, broken vehicles mark the porous boundaries between built and natural w
- Author: Messick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1736755838
- Language: English
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Lost But Found: An Upcountry Life
$26.95 Add to cartRobert Kimber has led a largely rural life as a farmer, writer, and woodsman. The essays gathered in this wide-ranging collection reflect a lifetime of adventures and misadventures. Kimber writes of c
- Author: Kimber, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1684750946
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Senses
$19.00 Add to cartDiane Ackerman’s lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses a… [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 1991
- ISBN10: 679735666
- Language: English
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The Radiant Lives of Animals
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal wo- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047929
- Language: English
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Basin and Range
$19.00 Add to cartThe first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world–a hi
- Series: Annals of the Former World #1
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1982
- ISBN10: 374516901
- Language: English
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Anywhere That Is Wild: John Muir’s First Walk to Yosemite
$14.00 Add to cartJohn Muir wrote many wonderful books about his travels, but one story–about his long walk from San Francisco to Yosemite–is one book he did not author himself. In April 1868, a very young John Muir … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1930238835
- Language: English
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A Year of Moons: Stories from the Adirondack Foothills
$18.95 Read more“There’s a fresh coating of snow on the ground outside our cabin as I look to see who’s coming to the fourteen feeders, we keep filled with black oil sunflower seeds year-round.” So begins A Year of M… [more below]
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1682753220
- Language: English
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Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
$14.95 Add to cartA grief-stricken, heart-hopeful, soul song to the American Desert.
As Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who ha
–PAM HOUSTON, author of Deep Creek- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1937226972
- Language: English
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The Wild Places
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Old Ways and Underland, an “eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we’re laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth’s surface.” –… [more below]
- Series: Landscapes #2
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113933
- Language: English
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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
$17.00 Add to cartIn this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.
As passionate as- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375725180
- Language: English
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The Singing Wilderness
$15.95 Read moreThe Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson’s first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume es… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0816629927
- Language: English
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Zoo World: Essays
$21.95 Add to cart“A pocket adventure for environmentalists and those who enjoy meditative writing.” —Kirkus
We contain the elements of our world in archives, boxes, collections, mausoleums, history books, and museum- Series: Non/Fiction Collection Prize
- Author: Quade, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258778
- Language: English
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Ron Schara’s Minnesota: Mostly True Tales of a Life Outdoors
$18.95 Add to cartDiscover the gentle humor and astute observations of a true outdoorsman as he shares stories of natural wonders and personal revelations, family traditions and triumphant treks in beloved midwestern l… [more below]
- Author: Schara, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341921
- Language: English
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That Quail, Robert
$13.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed story of the little bird that won the nation’s heart
He’ll never live, the neighbors all said. But Robert, the abandoned quail chick would prove them wrong. Born on a kitchen counter in
- Author: Stanger, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 03 1992
- ISBN10: 006081246X
- Language: English
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Wisdom of John Muir: 100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals, and Essays of the Great Naturalist
$14.95 Add to cartThe Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the many e… [more below]
- Author: Rowthorn, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0899976948
- Language: English
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Holy the Firm
$14.99 Add to cart“[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dill
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0060915439
- Language: English
