Essays
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Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work
$26.95 Add to cartAn abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as “going to seed.”
But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sendi
- Series: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize
- Author: Neville, Kate J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832031
- Language: English
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Elementals: 5-Volume Set
$125.00 Add to cart“This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. . . This is not just ‘nature writing.’ This is cosmic writing.”–Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration
For readers o
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 823
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986289625
- Language: English
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This Is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature
$19.95 Add to cartNature isn’t only in a park or wilderness. It’s right outside our door. Sometimes it’s on the door or comes inside to find us. Nature is the jumping spider on the screen, the assassin bug in the showe
- Author: Brichetto, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1595342990
- Language: English
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Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World
$21.99 Add to cartPart nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, … [more below]
- Author: Yuen, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000152
- Language: English
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
$14.95 Add to cart“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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Land of Women
$18.95 Read moreA bestseller memoir in Spain that calls us to reexamine how we view women and rural life
- Author: Sánchez, MarÃa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349634
- Language: English
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Accidental Gardens
$22.99 Add to cartThere is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Ga
- Author: Carney, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1925856291
- Language: English
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The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
$19.95 Add to cartA nature diary by award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.
When I lived in London I barely noticed- Author: Harrison, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0571363504
- Language: English
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Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days
$24.95 Add to cartOn the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all k
- Series: New York State
- Author: Shengold, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0815611242
- Language: English
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The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World
$18.00 Add to cartCan the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit,
- Series: World as Home
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1571312811
- Language: English
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
$19.95 Read moreLooking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. From overwinte… [more below]
- Author: Ray, Janisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349871
- Language: English
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Small Bodies of Water
$18.00 Read more‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane
Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied fr
‘Gorgeous’ Amy Liptrot
‘Urgent and nourishing’ Jessica J. Lee- Author: Powles, Nina Mingya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838852182
- Language: English
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Our Only World: Ten Essays
$16.95 Read more“Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rura… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1619027003
- Language: English
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Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
$17.95 Read moreExtraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery.
A Mail on Sunday “Critic’s Pick” Be
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1603587551
- Language: English
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Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals
$24.95 Read more“Peterson’s writing style and her intimately told stories about how animals and people can jointly navigate the planet have the ability to draw readers in and leave them with hope about the future of … [more below]
- Author: Peterson, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680516647
- Language: English
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The Green Halo: A Bird’s-Eye View of Ecological Ethics
$26.95 Add to cartPresenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations between humans and the rest of the natural world. The author looks at the views of thinkers including… [more below]
- Author: Kohak, Erazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0812694112
- Language: English
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A Very Small Farm
$16.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, put… [more below]
- Author: Winchester, William Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0806137789
- Language: English
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Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska’s Denali National Park
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling memoir about Kim Heacox’s more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska
- Author: Heacox, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493049585
- Language: English
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Wild Like Flowers: The Restoration of Relationship Through Regeneration
$20.35 Add to cartA 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Nature/Environmentalism
This is a book about Regenerative Agriculture gone wild.
This book of short stories and essays is a wondrous meditation on sunrises and
- Author: Griffith, Daniel Firth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1735492256
- Language: English
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Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about the evolution of a personal environmenta
- Author: Simpson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497837
- Language: English
