Essays
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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
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Summer Solstice: An Essay
$14.95 Add to cartSummer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon — but they’re captured here, in loving se
- Author: Maclaughlin, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 27 2020
- ISBN10: 157423238X
- Language: English
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The Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple
$14.95 Add to cartThis pocket-size book pairs 60 insightful John Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts.
- Series: Meditations (Wilderness)
- Author: Highland, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0899972853
- Language: English
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Otters Dance: A Rancher’s Journey to Enlightenment and Stewardship
$18.95 Add to cart“Otters Dance is a treatise on ranching, conservation, wildlife, family, and most of all a unique appreciation of our home state of Wyoming…This is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to unde… [more below]
- Author: Budd, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1682753409
- Language: English
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
$16.99 Add to cart“A collection of meditations like polished stones — painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world.” — K
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915412
- Language: English
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Coming Into the Country
$22.00 Add to cartComing into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522871
- Language: English
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
$19.00 Add to cartA beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence
“[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity’s destructive impulse, an- Author: Flyn, Cal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1984878212
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$13.00 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts–part social experiment, part spiritual quest–is an enduringly influential American classic.
I- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 804171564
- Language: English
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Nature and Other Essays
$16.99 Add to cartA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “Love,” and “Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature” declared that understanding
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 142365269X
- Language: English
