Essays
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High Vistas:: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, Volume II, 1900-2009
$21.99 Add to cartHigh Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky M… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Ellison, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 18 2011
- ISBN10: 159629356X
- Language: English
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The Wild Out Your Window
$15.95 Add to cartWhat could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montg… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0892725753
- Language: English
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The Book of Yaak
$16.99 Add to cartThe Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, mar
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0395877466
- Language: English
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Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
$17.00 Add to cartA classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
National Book Award-wi- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140265139
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau rec
- Series: Mint Editions (the Natural World)
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221108
- Language: English
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Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us about Slowing Down and Living Well
$21.00 Add to cartAn invitation to explore the life-giving lessons we can learn from the Earth, featuring stunning photography and reflections from an acclaimed visual artist
The Earth is the first tangible gift we wer- Author: Proctor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593581792
- Language: English
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Out Into The Beautiful World
$19.99 Add to cartWhen I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics b… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1943003025
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$27.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- Language: English
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Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
$17.99 Add to cartFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language–beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout’s odyssey from no… [more below]
- Series: Living Planet Book
- Author: Fouts, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380728222
- Language: English
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The River of the Mother of God: And Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
$29.95 Add to cartHis name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist’s bible. This book brings together the best of Leopold’s ess
- Author: Leopold, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0299127648
- Language: English
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A Wind-Storm in the Forests
$12.95 Add to cartThe nature writings of pioneering environmentalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir are like no other. In this essay from 1894, Muir describes the grandeur of the winds at play in the forests, with s… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1429096144
- Language: English
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
$26.99 Add to cart“Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire‘s literary heir . . . It’s hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one.”–Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review
Trespass is the
- Author: Irvine, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0865477450
- Language: English
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Blue Desert
$19.95 Add to cartIn the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Des… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0816510814
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
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Vesper Flights
$27.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0802128815
- Language: English
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
$22.99 Add to cartIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sour
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338754
- Language: English
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Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
$19.95 Read moreMoral Ground brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries — theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers — to present… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 1595340858
- Language: English
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Things That Are: Essays
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting A
- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1571313516
- Language: English
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The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
$24.95 Add to cartIn this abundant space and isolation, the energy lords extract their bounty of natural resources, and the curators of mass destruction once mined their egregious weapons and reckless acts. It is a la… [more below]
- Author: Meloy, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0816521530
- Language: English
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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature
$16.00 Add to cartA quirky and reverent romp through nature with an irreverently funny guide
In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood reveals his abiding affection for the overlooked an- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145459
- Language: English
