Essays
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The Curious Naturalist: Nature’s Everyday Mysteries
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Sy Montgomery takes you on an exploratory adventure through the seasons, into the woods, along the seashore, over frozen lakes, and right outside the back door.
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0892725109
- Language: English
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Dear Mad’m
$18.95 Add to cartDear Mad’m is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountain
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Patterson, Stella Walthall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0879611316
- Language: English
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Listening Point
$15.95 Read moreMany people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magn… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback)
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 1997
- ISBN10: 081662996X
- Language: English
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Revised, Expanded)
$25.99 Add to cart“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,” said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333604
- Language: English
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The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartExplorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.
From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0907791875
- Language: English
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Smoke to See By: Knowing Nature in Northern Appalachia
$19.95 Add to cartSmoke to See By is a collection of 21 essays and stories, many never before published, written by award-winning essayist and columnist Ben Moyer. The collection tracks the writer’s quest for intimate
- Author: Moyer, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888190937
- Language: English
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The Pine Barrens
$18.00 Add to cartMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks,
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374514429
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
$14.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 143037587
- Language: English
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The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada
$29.95 Add to cartIn The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.
Over
- Author: Nevle, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501762699
- Language: English
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Nature and Walking
$16.00 Add to cartTogether in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0807014192
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
$17.99 Add to cart“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau–and I loved it.”
–J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar” Connors’s] adventures in rad
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Connors, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0061859370
- Language: English
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’Odham Country
$21.95 Add to cartPublished more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Deser… [more below]
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816546894
- Language: English
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher’s Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful story of one angler’s adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery of a people livin… [more below]
- Series: Pruett
- Author: Middleton, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0871088924
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
$19.95 Add to cartNature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 185
- Series: New York State
- Author: Cooper, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0815603177
- Language: English
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The Nature of Desert Nature
$19.95 Read moreIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0816540284
- Language: English
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Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
$19.95 Add to cartIn essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick’s Compass Lines explores the paths we take toward belonging. Here, broken vehicles mark the porous boundaries between built and natural w
- Author: Messick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1736755838
- Language: English
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Lost But Found: An Upcountry Life
$26.95 Add to cartRobert Kimber has led a largely rural life as a farmer, writer, and woodsman. The essays gathered in this wide-ranging collection reflect a lifetime of adventures and misadventures. Kimber writes of c
- Author: Kimber, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1684750946
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Senses
$20.00 Add to cartDiane Ackerman’s lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses a… [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 1991
- ISBN10: 679735666
- Language: English
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The Radiant Lives of Animals
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal wo- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047929
- Language: English
