Essays
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Wildwood
$24.99 Add to cartHere, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin’s glorious meditation on woo… [more below]
- Author: Deakin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1416595325
- Language: English
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The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery
$22.95 Read moreIn this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier–a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, … [more below]
- Author: Ekelund, Torbjorn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1771645091
- Language: English
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A Place in the Woods
$16.95 Add to cartHelen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream o… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
- Author: Hoover, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0816631298
- Language: English
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Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartJust below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America’s most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventu… [more below]
- Series: Chapel Hill Books
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847526
- Language: English
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
$18.99 Add to cartWhen her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself t
- Author: Hubbell, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395967015
- Language: English
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In Suspect Terrain
$19.00 Read moreFrom the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the
- Series: Annals of the Former World #2
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 374517940
- Language: English
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums
$18.00 Add to cartIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach’s The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world
Humans, please turn your gu- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858852
- Language: English
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The Grand Teton Reader
$19.95 Read moreGrand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park’s natural … [more below]
- Series: National Park Readers
- Author: Righter, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690331
- Language: English
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Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range
$22.99 Add to cartJack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear and friends. Later in life, he led treks in I
- Author: Turner, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284462
- Language: English
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The Night Country
$24.95 Add to cartToward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom a… [more below]
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803267355
- Language: English
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Suburban Wild
$26.95 Add to cartSet in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, amid traffic, pollution, and ever-increasing neighborhoods of houses and apartments, these meditative personal essays explore the importance of our connectio
- Author: Friederici, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820357170
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Read moreIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
$24.95 Read moreReconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose. In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest w
- Author: Woolington, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1947845365
- Language: English
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Grounded: A Journey Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural world, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking t
- Author: Canton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063212145
- Language: English
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Oranges
$18.00 Add to cartA classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374512973
- Language: English
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The Tree
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fow
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997773
- Language: English
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John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess
$40.00 Add to cartKnown as the “Father of the National Parks,” John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence–as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection
In a lifetime of exploration,- Series: Library of America #92
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 1883011248
- Language: English
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A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
$26.00 Add to cartSome of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passio… [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0544986830
- Language: English
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Winter: Notes from Montana
$16.99 Add to cartThis book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0395611504
- Language: English
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Soul of Nowhere
$19.99 Add to cartIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the author
In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0316735884
- Language: English
