Essays
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The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog
$12.95 Add to cartRenowned playwright Eugene O’Neill composed this work in 1940 to comfort his wife about the death of their Dalmatian, Blemie. Better known for his despairing and pessimistic dramas, O’Neill’s touching… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: O’Neill, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1429096071
- Language: English
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Song of the Open Road
$12.95 Read moreWalt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” from his seminal work Leaves of Grass, is a celebration of freedom and the joy of journeying. In Whitman’s classic poem, the road becomes a metaphor for life’s
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1429096381
- Language: English
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In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature
$17.95 Add to cart“What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one’s way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest… A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.… [more below]
- Author: Ekelund, Torbjørn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 177164995X
- Language: English
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The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
$18.99 Add to cartFirst published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson’s award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of nature.
In 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rach
- Author: Carson, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062655353
- Language: English
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The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
$24.00 Add to cartFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, “multiracial” to “mixedblood,” the diversity of cultures in today’s world is reflected in our richly various stories–stories of creat
- Author: Deming, Alison Hawthorne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1571313192
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$16.99 Add to cartJohn Muir’s beloved adventure in the Sierra reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.
Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1423649125
- Language: English
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182)
$49.95 Add to cartAs America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the bes… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #182
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598530208
- Language: English
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Landmarks
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland–a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place
For years now, the British wr- Series: Landscapes #4
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0241967872
- Language: English
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Dear Park Ranger: Essays on Manhood, Restlessness, and the Geography of Hope
$18.95 Add to cart“Throughout my life,” writes Jeff Darren Muse, “manhood has been a kind of topographic map. Yet it’s peer pressure or social norms telling me which route to follow: Smile, Jeff, have a beer. Make babi
- Author: Muse, Jeff Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368523
- Language: English
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
$18.95 Add to cartWoodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the t… [more below]
- Author: Legler, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349596
- Language: English
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
$18.00 Add to cartIn the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bi… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679740244
- Language: English
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Never Cry Wolf
$18.99 Add to cartBy enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316881791
- Language: English
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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
$18.99 Add to cart“Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn’t put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mind–nor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will
- Author: Helfer, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26, 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929510
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set
$125.00 Add to cart*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment
*2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology
For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory
From The Center fo
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 942
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862553
- Language: English
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Walden
$14.99 Add to cartDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 150982670X
- Language: English
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
$20.00 Add to cartTimely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams’s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758246
- Language: English
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Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens
$27.95 Add to cart“Marc Hamer knows how to live–simply, sparely, reverently, abundantly. Spring Rain is a tonic for the soul.”–Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good Creature
From the beloved author of How to Catc- Author: Hamer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400272
- Language: English
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Walden: Life in the Woods: Life in the Woods
$18.99 Add to cartA beloved classic reissued for contemporary readers.
Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brut
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1423646797
- Language: English
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A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature
$17.95 Add to cartFrom 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, Torbjørn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 23-May-23
- ISBN10: 1778400760
- Language: English
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Vesper Flights
$18.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158676
- Language: English
