Topical/Ecology
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Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends
$18.00 Add to cartIn Sandstone Seduction, Katie Lee collects her most creative writing, written over her lifetime, telling us about the events that shaped her life, and her encounters with water and rock. As always, he
- Author: Lee, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1917895135
- Language: English
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Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks
$40.00 Add to cart“Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology.” —The New York Times Book Review
Aerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America’s 100 most spectacular geological formations. Cris- Author: Morton, Mary Caperton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1604697628
- Language: English
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
$21.00 Read morePraised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how wate… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1439102082
- Language: English
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Corolla’s Wild Horses: A History
$23.99 Read moreLocal journalist and author Jeff Hampton tells the stories of the wild horses of Corolla…and their protectors. A herd of wild horses has roamed the Currituck Outer Banks for nearly five hundred year
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Hampton, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153540
- Language: English
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
$28.95 Add to cartThe World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast–its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survi
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
- Author: Seabrook, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345334
- Language: English
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The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket
$26.99 Add to cartEven before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider’s sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glacie
- Author: Schneider, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805067345
- Language: English
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
$18.00 Add to cartFor twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to conv… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 037576139X
- Language: English
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Sustainability
$16.95 Read moreA concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.
The word “sustainability” has been connected to everything fr
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Portney, Kent E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0262528509
- Language: English
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Summer World
$19.99 Add to cartHow can cicadas survive–and thrive–at temperatures pushing 115 F? Do hummingbirds know what they’re up against before they migrate over the Gulf of Mexico? Why do some trees stop growing taller even
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0060742186
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
$28.99 Read more“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being Interested
In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular scien
- Author: Sumner, Seirian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063029928
- Language: English
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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World’s Last Frontier
$29.99 Add to cart“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia — and how hard it will be to eradicat
- Author: Araujo, Heriberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063024268
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Bees: Buzzy Wit & Wisdom
$8.95 Read moreListen to the bees.
Bees reflect human society – understand them and we can get a little closer to understanding ourselves. Humans and bees have enjoyed a close relationship for millennia, and the ent
- Series: Little Book Of… #1
- Author: Hippo, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 180069007X
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
$29.99 Read moreA beautiful and engaging guide to global warming’s impacts around the world
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and
- Author: Conklin, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1620974568
- Language: English
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On Time and Water
$26.00 Add to cartA few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind … [more below]
- Author: Magnason, Andri Snær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 194883023X
- Language: English
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Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do about It
$24.95 Add to cartBright Green Lies systematically debunks many of the lies and distortions that characterize the discourse of those who argue that ‘technology will stop global warming’ or that ‘technology will save th
- Series: Politics of the Living
- Author: Jensen, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 194862639X
- Language: English
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Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West
$18.95 Add to cart2022 National Indie Excellence Award Winner, Colorado Book Award Winner, Nautilus Silver Award Winner, Reading The West Longlist Nominee, Sarton Awards Shortlist Book
“Testimony to the healing power of
- Author: Wilder, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1948814366
- Language: English
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Mojave Desert Trails
$13.95 Add to cartFlorine Lawlor, author of the book, Out From Las Vegas, and columnist for the Las Vegas Sun for 40 years, introduces us to some of her favorite desert haunts and lesser-traveled jeep trails in her boo… [more below]
- Author: Lawlor, Florine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1893343030
- 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 Read moreKnown 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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Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
$17.95 Add to cartA Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had
- Series: Counterpunch
- Author: Hribal, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1849350264
- Language: English
