Essays
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The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
$36.00 Add to cartA gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena–from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxie… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593701488
- Language: English
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Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place
$15.95 Read more“Pam Houston and Amy Irvine bring rivers and mountains and valleys onto the page and into your heart, reminding you how you are still part of a body that matters… This book is fierce love in motion.
- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1948814382
- Language: English
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The Way of Natural History
$19.95 Read moreIn this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of… [more below]
- Author: Fleischner, Thomas Lowe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1595340742
- Language: English
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A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time
$27.95 Add to cartJoanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading… [more below]
- Author: Kaza, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1611807956
- Language: English
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The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology
$17.95 Read moreAn honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid.
It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car,- Author: Boyle, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1786077272
- Language: English
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
$19.00 Add to cart- Author: Nearing, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: January 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209700
- Language: English
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The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes
$16.95 Read more“Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore—his
- Author: Dennis, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0472035258
- Language: English
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The Second Body
$18.00 Read moreEvery living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. Whe… [more below]
- Author: Hildyard, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695475
- Language: English
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Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
$14.99 Read more‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane
A search for nearby nature and wildness After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detail… [more below]- Author: Humphreys, Alastair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1785633678
- Language: English
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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
$15.95 Add to cartIn Holloway, a perfect miniature prose-poem (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed hollo
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1324015829
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet
$25.00 Read more*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology
Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of plane
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862502
- Language: English
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Canoeing in the Wilderness
$16.99 Read moreThoreau’s famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.
Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that desc
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1423649141
- Language: English
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A Farm Life: Observations from Fields and Forests
$39.50 Add to cartDaryln Brewer Hoffstot has observed the fields and forests of her Pennsylvania farm for 35 years. Her essays explore animals, fungi, trees, and other aspects of the natural world. She is a keen observ
- Author: Hoffstot, Daryln Brewer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811772454
- Language: English
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Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies
$19.99 Add to cartIn Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase… [more below]
- Author: Marty, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0771056702
- Language: English
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
$14.95 Read more“We want to live as if there is no other place,” Hogan tells us, “as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life.” In offering praise to sk… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393322475
- Language: English
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The Second Body
$18.00 Read moreEvery living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. Whe… [more below]
- Author: Hildyard, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695475
- Language: English
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Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places
$14.95 Add to cart“Sumptuous and vivid in every instance. Childs writes with enviable concision and richness of depth in these miniature essays.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWWriter and adventurer Craig Childs dwells upon desert ic
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1948814188
- Language: English
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Reflections from the North Country
$15.95 Read moreWritten in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson’s most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson … [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback)
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0816629935
- Language: English
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Something in the Woods Loves You
$30.00 Add to cartAn inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health
Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his li- Author: Anderson, Jarod K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1643262297
- Language: English
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
$30.00 Add to cartThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars
“Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0300104669
- Language: English
